Speedi-Beet Quick Soaking Beet Flakes

Advantages: Quick to prepare.
Disadvantages: More expensive than sugar beet (alternative).

Winter is fast approaching, a time where horses need more looking after and require more feed to maintain their weight and their energy levels. It is also a time which, as well as needing more time, a horse will also cost more to look after. Whilst there are certain horses, especially native ponies and those not in work, that do not require much hard feed, as long as they have good grazing and hay or haylage, I will be refering to those that do, ...
...brief overview. Horses are trickle feeders, that is they need to eat more or less constantly when they are not working (little and often). When they are out in the field grazing, they spend time relaxing, but they also spend a lot of time grazing. In comparison to dogs and cats, they spend a lot of their time eating. When in the field they forage, eat things they can find in the hedge, grass. When they are in the stable they need ad lib hay or haylage ... Read review

Advantages: rapid soaking-ready in 10 mins! low sugar, high fibre!
Disadvantages: none that i have found so far

Since one of my horses cam down with laminitis this summer i have had to re-think there feeding. Before i had always used the traditional beet pulps that were molassed and required soaking for 24 hours before it can be fed to horses, but since this is a molassed feed it isnt suitable for my laminatic horse. Speedibeet is an unmolassed beet pulp which is 95% sugar free and is ready in 10 minutes if soaked with cold water or 5 minutes if soaked in ...
...suitable for horses or ponies prone to laminitis. The product is presented as flakes of beet pulp unlike the pellets that are the traditional beet pulp, you soak them in a ration of 1:5 ie if you use 250 grams of speedibeet flakes you need to add 1.25 litres of water, which means they need more water added than pellets which require soak as a ratio of 1:3. I was a bit unsure how my fussy eating pony would take to it as he loves his mollassed beet ... Read review

Advantages: Only takes 10 minutes to soak plus no molasses added
Disadvantages: Costs almost twice as much as regular molasses beet

Speedi-beet is sugar beet pulp that is prepared as small flakes, without added molasses, which only need to be soaked for ten minutes before feeding. Yes, it really is ready in ten minutes! This saves considerable time for busy horse owners and is ideal for both large yards and the one horse owner as it avoids preparation the night before. No last minute panics in the morning and less risk of contamination from whatever is around during the night. ...
...months following my horse’s first ever bout of laminitis. As no molasses are added the problem of excess sugars, which could exacerbate laminitis, are lessened considerably. Large bellies can be lessened considerably too! My old gelding has improved in both appearance and vitality so much that the twenty liveries are now fed this instead of the traditional beet pulp. ... Read review