Speedi Beat or Fibre beet????

[clairenmolly]

i have a thoroughbred cross who loses weight quickly at this time of year. shes in over night with loads of hay and her pajamas on. warm rugs and decent grazing during the day.
She is currently on Alfa A and cool mix but i am considering feeding speedi beet or fibre beat to help with the weight but which is least heating? shes a nutter as it is!
thanks everyone

 

[charlottenicol]

I use speedie beet there is no mollassas so not too bad, my friend has a Russian Trotter who needs nothing to get him excited and she uses it too.

 

[jayvee]

I have yet to try it (on order).. Speedibeet is the one I am going for. Goggle speedi beet and see.

 

[_daisy_]

been told that the Fibre Beet is better than Speedi Beet for helping with the weight problem. As it is soaked Alfalfa as well as sugar beet. Looks like cow pats but the horses seems to love it. Just bought a bag to see how 2 of mine do on it.

 

[spaniel]

Investigated Fibrebeet for my two recently and will be swapping over to it once I run out of grass chaff. Cuts down on the number of feed bins I fill each month plus takes less time to mix and soak than normal sugarbeet.

You could also check out Marksway Barley Plus which is something else Im looking into.

 

[_daisy_]

yep will go have a look to see if it might be of use to any of mine - certainly need to cut down on the amount of bags of feed i have - currently have 7 bags open - all for different hosses - bloody annoying

 

[CJ1]

Im 1/2 way thro a bag of fibrebeet. Its great. The big man has 1/2 scoop of warm beet in his dinner everynight and 1/2 cold in breakfast. He loves it and its kept him up to his chunkness over the past month of using it.

I use it quite sloppy and it looks like mud

 

[JaneSteventon]

I feed speedi beet and alfalfa nuts soaked in with it, so i guess it's the same thing, great stuff for my two who live out, but i mix my own as my mare can only cope with 1kg of alafalfa a day, 2kg and she goes loopy so i substitute with grass nuts. Gelding has 2kg a day and is fine. Obviously if i fed fibre beet I could't do this.

 

[timeandchance]

we use Speedi beet with Charlie and Amber (both VERY firedy in the winter).....just swaped over from normal beet and can see the change in about 4 days...would def reccomend it!