Speedi beet for the scrawny Arab

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Is it any good? I might put my old girl on it for the winter since she's pretty skinny at the moment (ribs visible). She's naturally very lean anyway but it's getting a bit colder now and she's 22 with cushings. So any good news on using it?
 
it's a very good way of getting lots of fibre into them, and its very digestible (slow release energy). If you were to feed it with alfalfa and a high oil supplement like rice bran or full fat soya then you'd have a brilliant, easy to adjust high conditioning feed!
 
Every single horse I have owned has gone nuts on speedi beet and I have no idea why. They are fine on normal sugar beet though and I think it is far better than the speedi beet. :)
 
We use speedibeet by the truckload on our yard. All none ridden horses are fed it all winter along with some fibre, ridden horses are fed this along with their usual feeds to keep the weight on. Works wonders without the fizz of sugarbeet, our yard is a molasses free zone!!
 
We've got pure soya oil now. Wouldn't wanna change her feed now since its working well with her + lammy. Thank god it's not heating haha, Arab says it all... Unless she turns out like Kokopellis horses.,, I dont know about sugar beet since with cushings she could get lammy.
 
Ordinary sugar beet is not suitable for a horse with cushings.
Speedy beet should be ideal for your purpose,if it does not suit for some reason try Allen and Page Fast Fibre also suitable as low in sugar and starch ,high in fibre and can be used as partial hay replacement .
 
I used freezed dried grass to put weight on my mare when she was all scrawny. It was £4.50 a bag, and it goes a long way. Graze On it's called :) she's a laminitic mare too.
 
I wouldn't say 'arab' describes temperament, my 2 purebreds (mother & daughter) are very different. Whilst nature certainly has an input, nuture is also a large contributor. My 14 yr old girl reacts to sugar beet, whether or not it is molassed. As a result instead of giving her beet water at competitions she has grass water made from grass nuts. I find it helps her to keep grass in her system everyday, so avoiding a sudden shock in spring when it shoots through. To do this I keep her on a mollasses & cereal free diet. She is fed soaked grass nuts every day (volume adjusted according to workload) with top spec lite as this is also not cereal based unlike the other well known brand. It is toppd up with linseed. If she were to work hard enough to require it, I would mix in high protein nuts (the red bag from simple systems) & decrease the low (blue bag) ones. In the winter this is supplemented with homegrown haylage. Arabs are generally good doers, given that they have evolved to live on a very poor diet. If you can find something to supply energy rather than fizz, the weight should be easier to keep on. If a horse is a fizzy poor doer it can be a royal pain in the proverbial, I have watched my friend struggle with her tb for years. She has found that the red bag grass nuts with luci nuts have worked exceptionally well for her (23 yr old but as daft as ever) tb who drops weight like no-ones business as soon as she starts work.
 
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