Speedi beat in place of chaff

[Feival]

Is this ok or would fast fibre better? He is on good grass and adlib soaked hay. He's still not happy eating his hard feed with chaff in.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

What hard feed are you giving? Would an overhaul be better, introducing soaked grassnuts and sugarbeet, instead of the hard feed.

 

[HorseMad91]

My mares really fussy when it comes to chaff and generally just chucks it everywhere and I got recommended to replace chaff with fast fibre instead and she preferred it as it was nice a sloppy.

 

[Tnavas]

When chaff wasn't available we used to feed Sugar Beet, or Speedi Beet. Both open up the feed and encourage the horse to chew its food better.

 

[Goldenstar]

It would be fine to use speedibeet .

 

[hibshobby]

I use Hi-Fi Lite with Speedibeet. I doubt there's much in it really - personal preference perhaps.

 

[daydreamer]

I feed supplments, a bit of micronised linseed and speedibeet. I don't use chaff. My horse seems fine with it. Speedibeet is high fibre, low sugar (if using unmolassed) so equally as good as fast fibre i would think.

 

[FfionWinnie]

Depends what you are trying to achieve by feeding it. Speedibeet can send some horses nuts and I believe has more calories than fast fibre which is basically cardboard (so my horse says!).

 

[criso]

Some horses seem to prefer a fibrous feed and don't like slop others aren't that keen on chaff and like wet feeds so that could influence what you feed.

Fast fibre is basically sugarbeet and chaff with a few added extras so if you think yours would prefer a wetter feed but want less calories that just speedibeet it could be an option.

But as others have said also depends on what else you are feeding and what you are aiming at weight loss/gain, more/less energy etc