Soaked oats question

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Do you need to drain them? i.e. Is there something in the liquid that I need to get rid of, which isn't good to feed?

For ease I want to soak them in the same bucket as sugarbeet, but can't if I have to drain them.

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umm, i've always soaked them separately because i want to be able to play around with exact amounts of each. no idea if there's nasties in the water though. the best person to answer that would be Ellen Collinson, she put me onto soaked oats and no nasty mixes or nuts years ago.
 
I find the water goes smelly quite quickly so oats them with a sieve. However I've recently got fed up with having 4 buckets of oats and sugar beet on the soak cluttering up the place, so have given up soaking the oats and just feed them dry.

Mixing them with the SB would be the answer!!
 
Hmm - I feed oats but never soak them - I use cracked or rolled oats.

You have to soak whole oats as the husk is indigestible so there needs to be some way for them to be 'broken into' - there is nothing nasty in the water so I wouldn't worry on that case

There is slightly more nutrition in whole oats though *I think*
 
I usually drain mine, but when running short of time have been known to just fish handfuls of wet oats out of the soaking bucket, with no ill effects.
I think Tia soaks all her feed together including the oats, so you could check with her whether there are any problems

'Definately drain the water out, that is the whole point of soaking them'
I thought the whole point of soaking them was to make the outer layer more digestible
 
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I usually drain mine, but when running short of time have been known to just fish handfuls of wet oats out of the soaking bucket, with no ill effects.
I think Tia soaks all her feed together including the oats, so you could check with her whether there are any problems

'Definately drain the water out, that is the whole point of soaking them'
I thought the whole point of soaking them was to make the outer layer more digestible

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Yes that is true; but it is also to remove any toxins and chemicals/fertiliser that were used when the oats were grown in the soil. Hence draining the oats and throwing the water away.
 
re soakd oats. doesnt soaking also release/ leach out some of the starch and that too will get drained away with the water, thereby reducing the starchy content of the grain and so making it less calorific which is why , presumably, the horse doesnt hot up on soaked oats as much as when fed unsioaked ones.
 
if we're talking about soaking whole oats, then The Watcher is right - soaking them is to make them digestible by getting through the outer layer (which would normally be broken by rolling, bruising, micronising or whatever). or are we talking about soaking already-broken oats?
 
I only use double-clean or triple-clean whole oats and yes I soak them alongside all of my other feeds as I premix my feet. No I don't drain them - doesn't make any difference either way whether you drain them or not, the husks will still have soaked and that is the point of soaking oats.
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