How long do soaked grass pellets keep?

[AntiPuck]

This is possibly a question borne of over-thinking, but i'm wondering how long you'd use soaked grass pellets for after soaking them?

I like to pre-mix feed/supplement stuff for the week, and pre-soaking for, say, 7 days at a time would be ideal.

The soaking time on the bag is 2 hours cold/15 mins hot but it doesn't give an opinion as to when the soaked pellets should be used by.

Can they 'go off' as such?

I also feed 3 tbsp of salt per day, so wondering if I pre-soak and pre-mix with salt, if that mixture would be ok to keep until it is fed, or if the salt would mess with the grass pellets in some way.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

I use grass pellets. I soak their evening tea in the morning and the mornings breakfast the previous evening!! I do cover feeds over though in the summer to keep the flies off.

 

[Goldenstar]

In this weather not long .
I had a couple of times where I put them in water at night and they where fermenting by morning .

 

[AntiPuck]

In this weather not long .
I had a couple of times where I put them in water at night and they where fermenting by morning .

eek, ok - thank you, glad I asked!

 

[Gloi]

In cooler weather ok to soak overnight Orin the morning for evening but in this heat I'd do them fresh.

 

[Cowpony]

Yep, it's a complete waste to soak them too far in advance, because the horses won't eat them

 

[criso]

Not grass pellets but at our yard, anyone who has soaked feed is making it fresh in this weather. In the winter, I leave my Copra overnight but at the moment, I'm doing it half an hour before.

 

[TheMule]

Yes, they go off. In the cold weather you can do 24hours but in the summer I won’t do it for longer than 12hours

 

[tda]

Yes, they go off. In the cold weather you can do 24hours but in the summer I won’t do it for longer than 12hours

Agree

 

[Fieldlife]

I manage 16 hours for mine. But I have a old freezer for storing them which doesn’t heat up. So morning and night soaking. I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to soak feed more than 24 hours!

 

[Pinkvboots]

In this heat I wouldn't keep any soaked feed for no longer than 24 hours, I would rather soak fresh for everyday otherwise its just horrible.

 

[Esmae]

Depending on how much you need, but in our case, if I soak any in the heat I use a small bucket to soak the grass nuts, inside a freezer box with the ice block in there and put the lid on. It keeps them cool without altering the time for soaking. In the winter I do the same but without the ice block and it stops them from freezing.

 

[Nasicus]

I once soaked a bucket of grassnuts then forgot about it for a couple days. Minging!

 

[Birker2020]

Not grass pellets but at our yard, anyone who has soaked feed is making it fresh in this weather. In the winter, I leave my Copra overnight but at the moment, I'm doing it half an hour before.

Agree, I've always wet my breakfast the night before but I've been leaving it for staff to wet because it can go off so fast.