Monsters Of The Beet Field - The Story Of The Sugar Beet Harvester (DVD)

Speedibeet, Low sugar alternative

Advantages: rapid soaking-ready in 10 mins! low sugar, high fibre!
Disadvantages: none that i have found so far

Since one of my horses cam down with laminitis this summer i have had to re-think there feeding. Before i had always used the traditional beet pulps that were molassed and required soaking for 24 hours before it can be fed to horses, but since this is a molassed feed it isnt suitable for my laminatic horse. Speedibeet is an unmolassed beet pulp which is 95% sugar free and is ready in 10 minutes if soaked with cold water or 5 minutes if soaked in hot water and is recomended by the laminitis trust as suitable for horses or ponies prone to laminitis. The product is presented as flakes of beet pulp unlike the pellets that are the traditional beet pulp, you soak them in a ration of 1:5 ie if you use 250 grams of speedibeet flakes you need to add 1.25 litres of water, which means they need more water added than pellets which require soak as ...

Scarlet337 16.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Speedi-Beet Quick Soaking Beet Flakes

Quick to mush.

Advantages: Quick to prepare.
Disadvantages: More expensive than sugar beet (alternative).

weight. What is Speedi Beet? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Speedi beet which is the product on review is in between a hard feed and a forage. It can be given to older horses as it is easy to chew and digest but is given to all ages. It is more commonly used to bulk out feed and add fibre and moisture. Fibre is an important part of the horse diet. Speedi beet is unmolassed and sugar free, good for horses that have had laminitis, non-heating and slow release. The slow release is easy to explain as it is the same as human food that is slow release, lasting longer in the system. The other things mean basically that it should not make the horse too excited. Some horse owners need to be careful in case of lamimitis (more common in ponies on lush grazing). It is a condition that causes the pedal bone (a bone in the foot) to rotate causing ...

spottydog2 10.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Speedi-Beet Quick Soaking Beet Flakes

Field of yawns

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Appalling story and acting

Ray Kinsella is a farmer in Iowa, married to Annie and they have a child, Karin. One day, Ray is in the fields when he hears a voice: "Build it, and he will come." Initially, he thinks he must be dreaming, but the voice comes back to him, along with a vision of a baseball pitch set into part of his land. He becomes convinced that something great will happen and so ploughs one of his fields and turns it into a baseball pitch. Having spent all their savings on the pitch, the Kinsellas are now in deep financial trouble, but when a team of famous baseball players from years ago turn up to play on the pitch, Ray thinks it is all worth it. Then he starts to hear voices again, giving him further instructions. What is the point of the instructions? And will Ray be able to keep the family out of debt? I had never heard of this film before I ...

sunmeilan 21.07.2007 · Read full review
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