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British Horse Feeds Sugar Beet 25kg

SKU: 22091
Supabeet Molassed Sugar Beet Feed helps to increase animal performance and is ideal as the base ingredient for feed mixes for your ruminant and equine livestock.
£9.95
Availability: In stock
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  • A high digestible fibre energy and palatable pelleted feed. 
  • For those requiring additional digestible fibre as part of a fully balanced diet.
  • Great for horses on a low starch diet needing low sugar, high fibre calories.
  • Good-doers who need to be kept chewing, while controlling calorie intake.

Sugar beet is a popular feed for horses and ponies. It is the dried remainder of the root crop sugar beet, once the sugar has been extracted, and is available as shreds and pellets. Nutritionally, it is a cross between forage and concentrate feed and potentially can make a significant contribution to the horses diet. However, it tends to be fed as a feed-dampener and succulent. Sugar beet is an excellent source of highly digestible fibre, yet has a non-heating energy content equivalent to that of grains; it is also calcium-rich. The fibre helps to maintain efficient gut function and is fermented in the hind gut, slowly releasing energy, helping to keep the horse warm rather than produce "fizz". The sugars are digested in the small intestine by enzymes, giving a more instant energy. Sugar beet is very palatable, encouraging even the fussiest horse to eat. When fed as a damp, firm feed, it is useful to disguise the flavour of other less tasty ingredients in the diet such as worming powders. When made sloppier, it can help to rehydrate a horse. Sugar Beet Pellets are higher in energy due to the sugar present. They are useful for horses who are ridden for long periods of time without food such as endurance horses and hunters as the energy is obtained from the sugar first, and then it is released from the fibre. Also feeding it very wet will help ensure water intake.

  • A high digestible fibre energy and palatable pelleted feed. 
  • For those requiring additional digestible fibre as part of a fully balanced diet.
  • Great for horses on a low starch diet needing low sugar, high fibre calories.
  • Good-doers who need to be kept chewing, while controlling calorie intake.

Sugar beet is a popular feed for horses and ponies. It is the dried remainder of the root crop sugar beet, once the sugar has been extracted, and is available as shreds and pellets. Nutritionally, it is a cross between forage and concentrate feed and potentially can make a significant contribution to the horses diet. However, it tends to be fed as a feed-dampener and succulent. Sugar beet is an excellent source of highly digestible fibre, yet has a non-heating energy content equivalent to that of grains; it is also calcium-rich. The fibre helps to maintain efficient gut function and is fermented in the hind gut, slowly releasing energy, helping to keep the horse warm rather than produce "fizz". The sugars are digested in the small intestine by enzymes, giving a more instant energy. Sugar beet is very palatable, encouraging even the fussiest horse to eat. When fed as a damp, firm feed, it is useful to disguise the flavour of other less tasty ingredients in the diet such as worming powders. When made sloppier, it can help to rehydrate a horse. Sugar Beet Pellets are higher in energy due to the sugar present. They are useful for horses who are ridden for long periods of time without food such as endurance horses and hunters as the energy is obtained from the sugar first, and then it is released from the fibre. Also feeding it very wet will help ensure water intake.

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