Recommended daily feed rates (per head basis)

Feeding rates are produced as a guide only and should be adjusted to take account of other feeds in your horse or ponies’ diet as well as their condition and workload. A minimum of 50%, by weight, of your horse’s daily requirement should be forage (grass/hay/silage/chaff) to maintain gut health and function.

Soaking of Equibeet

• Equibeet requires soaking for a minimum of 24 hours, after which it can be combined with other
horse feeds.

• Any horse that has been fed unsoaked sugar beet should be seen by a veterinarian immediately.

• Add 1 litre of water to every 200g of Equibeet (5: 1)and drain off any excess water before feeding.

• Soaked sugar beet should be used up in a couple of days. In hot weather, soaked sugar beet may start to ferment changing its palatability and nutritional value. Only soak enough pellets to last one day in summer months.

• Use each batch of soaked sugar beet completely before preparing the next batch. Do not keep on ‘topping up’ the sugar beet left to soak.

• Equibeet is available from regional distributors, UK wide, in 20kg bags.

• It must be stored in a secure shed, bunker, bin or hopper and kept cool, dry and free from vermin.

• Make sure horses and ponies cannot gain access to unsoaked Equibeet.

Equibeet should be used within 12 months.

Sugar beet is a root crop, resembling a turnip, which is commonly grown in Northern Europe for sugar production. Once the sugar has been diffused out from the beet, the remaining fibrous residues are dried and then pelleted to produce the final product.

Equibeet is FEMAS assured (or a recognised equivalent) and is marketed by Trident who are UFASaccredited. Equibeet (Dried (sugar) beet feed) is listed under number 4.1.10 in the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials.