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  • From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Pelleted feed, ignorance or bliss?
  • Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:53:32 -0700

Karen Nesbitt wrote:
>why on earth WOULD you want to feed a pelletized feed to a horse

Some people keep horses in places where there is no grazing and
where baled hay is more expensive than pellets and/or of lesser
quality or less consistent quality.

Some people need to feed pellets because their horses need a more
easily digested feed than straight hay. Pellet feeds normally have
been pre-cooked, hence are in a sense partly pre-digested. And
the cooking treatment also kills seeds in the pellet feeds, which
makes them desirable (sometimes even required) feed for horses to
be used on lands where management forbids introduction of seeds
via horse feed and/or manure.

Also, although concentrates normally are in pellet form, not all
pellet feeds are concentrates. So-called "complete feeds" are
pellet feeds that are no different than good hay, nutritionally
and by weight.

Anyway, I again suggest taking this thread to another forum; it
has no particular relevance to MSAR.

Una Smith
New Mexico




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