Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Beet Pulp FAQs

Thehorse.com - Full Article

By Alexandra Beckstett, The Horse Managing Editor
Mar 03, 2014

You hear about owners feeding it to their underweight or aging horses. You see fellow boarders at the barn scooping it into buckets for soaking. But what is this stuff, and does your horse need it?

Beet pulp, a byproduct of the sugar beet industry, has long been a part of equine feed regimens, but that doesn’t mean owners don’t have questions about it. So we’ve compiled your most common inquiries and called on Kelly Vineyard, MS, PhD, research equine nutritionist at Purina Animal Nutrition, and Kristen M. Janicki, MS, PAS, an equine nutritionist based in Versailles, Ky., to provide some answers...

Read more here:
http://www.thehorse.com/articles/33471/beet-pulp-faqs?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=nutrition&utm_campaign=03-03-2014

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