Sugar beet pulp

Bodacious

Feeding few heifers sugar beet pulp and barley out on a rough grazing hill. But first 2 bags of pulp I got we're mighty GAIN ... Nice dark fluffy when wet from clean nuts... Got this other stuff from no name supplier ... Very dusty when dry and when I added the water it was yellow in colour and mushy ... They ate it anyway but just wondered if sugar beet pulp should be dark or yellow and is Gain a good company ... Price is same like

Thanks

Sam Kade

Pulp nuts expand when they get wet. They will look like pulped beet, which is what they were before being made into nuts.

How are your heifers doing on the beet pulp and barley? I fed weanlings over the winter one year with brewers grains and pulp nuts and they thrived way better than another batch that were getting beef nuts.

Bodacious

Sam Kade wrote: »

Pulp nuts expand when they get wet. They will look like pulped beet, which is what they were before being made into nuts.

How are your heifers doing on the beet pulp and barley? I fed weanlings over the winter one year with brewers grains and pulp nuts and they thrived way better than another batch that were getting beef nuts.

Hi Sam

They doing fine on it, they are being forced to eat this mountain behind the house.. No hay or haylage yet just pulp and barley but they holding their own .

We always use pulp for horses and when wet its a lovely dark rich colour and fluffy, this yellowy stuff has me miffed... Will get the GAIN brand again as l compared labels also and all that's on the yellow stuff is 9% sucrose whereas Gain have a few other bits in it

Sam Kade

How much is the gain pulp? I have a few weanlings that need a bit of feeding.

brownswiss

Bodacious wrote: »

Hi Sam

They doing fine on it, they are being forced to eat this mountain behind the house.. No hay or haylage yet just pulp and barley but they holding their own .

We always use pulp for horses and when wet its a lovely dark rich colour and fluffy, this yellowy stuff has me miffed... Will get the GAIN brand again as l compared labels also and all that's on the yellow stuff is 9% sucrose whereas Gain have a few other bits in it

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I have also noticed a difference in the pulp nuts. I was using the Greenvale which were fine but expensive at the local co-op. Switched to a white bag no name product which was cheaper from a private merchant. Horses do not like the no name product. I thought all pulp nuts would taste the same?

grumpyfarmer

Are some not molassesed and some unmolassesed

Bodacious

Sam Kade wrote: »

How much is the gain pulp? I have a few weanlings that need a bit of feeding.

E9.50 or E10 a 25kg bag depending on places I was going to