Warm or cold water may be used using warm water will decrease the soaking time. To properly soak beet pulp, place it in a bucket and add twice as much water as beet pulp by volume. You should soak dried beet pulp before feeding to horses, it is more palatable and is less likely to cause choke. However, if you notice that your beet pulp based feed is dry, which can occur over time, add some water to the feed and re-moisten or rehydrate the beet pulp, which will increase palatability of the feed and reduce the risk of choke. Adding beet pulp to a textured feed allows the molasses in the feed, which contains a substantial amount of water, to hydrate the beet pulp and make it palatable and prevent choking. Also, none of the horses "exploded" or had a rupture of the stomach or intestines, which is a common myth of feeding dry beet pulp to horses. Horses on beet pulp based feeds have suffered no higher incidence of colic. Horses have been fed beet pulp based feeds for many years with no problems. Because of beet pulp's high calcium content don't feed beet pulp to miniature horses due to the increased risk of enterolith formation, and don't feed it to horses diagnosed with kidney disease or renal calculi. You may consider feeding beet pulp if your horse is a "hard keeper" to increase weight gain, if the quality of your hay is poor, or if your horse has problems chewing or digesting baled hay, which is especially common in older horses. The digestible energy content of beet pulp is greater than most hay and less than most grain ingredients, making its reputation as a weight building feed supplement well deserved.
Beet pulp has a high level of calcium (over 1%) but very little phosphorus. Beet pulp is an excellent source of highly digestible fiber and has a crude protein content of 7%. Table 1 lists the nutrient composition of beet pulp. Also, all Triple Crown and Legends Horse Feeds contain added beet pulp. Examples of high quality, beet pulp-based feeds include Triple Crown Senior, Triple Crown Complete, Triple Crown Growth, and Legends Racing. Beet pulp is an excellent ingredient for complete horse feeds, where no hay or a limited amount of hay or pasture is fed, such as feeds for older horses or horses with respiratory problems such as heaves. It is fed as a digestible fiber supplement to a horse’s fiber or forage needs, and dried beet pulp may be incorporated into quality horse feeds as a source of digestible fiber and to significantly lower the sugar and starch content of the feed. Dried beet pulp is available in shredded or pelleted form.
After processing, it has high water content and is prone to mold, so it is dried for storage. Beet pulp is the fibrous material that remains after most of the sugar is removed from sugar beets.
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