Discover a delicious solution for feeding your horse for healthy weight loss. Learn about the benefits of using sugar beet as a safe and nutritious feed.
Feeding your horse for healthy weight loss can be hard, with your chosen regime needing to be rich in vitamins, minerals and fibre. Your chosen diet also needs keep your horse’s stomach full, as well as being low on calories! However, we think we may have found a delicious solution…Sugar Beet!
How Does Sugar Beet Aid Healthy Weight Loss?
As a root vegetable, sugar beet is high in fibre but in low starch and sugar (if unmolassed it contains approximately 5%) and is therefore a safe, easily digested and non-heating feed. It is also high in calcium and low in phosphorus, which is the perfect ratio for horse feeds to maintain healthy bones and bodily function.
Sugar beet needs soaking before being fed to your horse, therefore rations usually are made of up to 80% water! The high water content fills your horse’s stomach, allowing you to feed larger quantities to maintain gut health, without the risk of surplus calories.
Watching Weight with Speedi-Beet
Speedi-Beet from British Horse Feeds is a highly nutritious and extremely versatile, quick soaking beet pulp feed that is suitable overweight ponies and equines prone to laminitis as part of a balanced diet.
Starch free and unmolassed, Speedi-Beet is 95% sugar free and can be fed in small amounts to overweight horses and ponies as a carrier for a multivitamin and mineral supplement.
There’s a high proportion of soluble fibre, mostly pectins in Speedi-Beet, which means its fibre is more easily digested than that found in forage e.g. hay. This makes it a great source of non-heating slow release energy.
Made using only best quality British Beet Pulp, Speedi-Beet is subjected to British Horse Feeds’ patented cooking process to produce a unique soaked feed, ready to use in just 10 minutes.
Speedi-Beet is available in easy to handle 20kg bags and retails at around £12.50-£13.50.
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