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Location: North Dakota | Timothy/grass hay preferably. I might have to dry lot my horse for the summer (if the grazing muzzle doesn't work out) and since the barn staff does feeding, I need a cube that they don't have to soak. I'm in Bismarck, ND so it's harder to find independent dealers for...anything. |
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Location: Running my kids somewhere. | I sat through a webcast from Standlee. One of the topics was, do you have to soak? According to them you do not have too; unless you have a horse that is prone to choke. It is a matter of your choice. My one horse does not like them soaked and eats them just fine dry. |
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I just read the headlines
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| My sister and I have fed cubes dry with no problem, but I have a horse that gobbles badly, so I soaked them, but she had a older mare that she fed them dry to and had no problems at all. I'm a chicken since I have had 2 horses choke on pellets. |
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| I feed hayrite to mine and do not soak them. No problems at all. |
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Location: Texas! | If you can get a big enough order D&D Nutrition will ship FedEx or UPS (can't remember which) right to your door. |
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Location: Montana | I have fed the Standlee pellets they are soft
Enough you don’t have have to soak. Alfalfa prices got to high for me by the bale for the amount mine were wasting because of the stems. I did soak for my gelding because he would just eat way to fast. My mare I don’t worry about as much. She likes to take a bite and walk around. |
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Location: North Dakota | Fleet Farm in Fargo ND carries Great Lakes Alfalfa cubes that are softer than standlee and my horses actually liked them.
Other than that there is someone out by Bismark who carries Omnis Cubes which you don't soak. |
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| Choking on cubes just depends on each bite your horse takes on that one dry cube.
They are compacted, ruff textured and dry and swell when soaked which means they are
pulling water/fluids from horses digestive system if not soaked before eating.
Why take the chance of having a choking incident??
You should be in a good area to buy very good 3 stringed baled alfalfa and hay ...
for much less than 40# sacks of cubes. So why not do that ???
Buy you a 100 gal Rubbermaid water tub to feed your hay and alfalfa in so you
do not waste the leaves or have your horse eating off the ground.
These are 85-105# bales so 3 would easily last for a week at 30#'s per day .. |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | BARRELHORSE USA - 2018-05-03 10:07 PM
Choking on cubes just depends on each bite your horse takes on that one dry cube.
They are compacted, ruff textured and dry and swell when soaked which means they are
pulling water/fluids from horses digestive system if not soaked before eating.
Why take the chance of having a choking incident??
You should be in a good area to buy very good 3 stringed baled alfalfa and hay ...
for much less than 40# sacks of cubes. So why not do that ???
Buy you a 100 gal Rubbermaid water tub to feed your hay and alfalfa in so you
do not waste the leaves or have your horse eating off the ground.
These are 85-105# bales so 3 would easily last for a week at 30#'s per day ..
Only because I have no way to transport hay, or any place to store it. I board and live in an apartment. If I could get out to feed 2x daily, I would soak (although my horse is really not a big fan) but I work full time, irregular hours, and the barn is almost a half hour drive one way. |
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 Ms Bling Bling Sleeze Kitty
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | Ive heard that if you feed from the ground, they don't choke, but I don't trust any cube with out spraying them down at least... what about pellets for your situation?
I feed the Omnis Omega cubes and they are a softer cube, but I spray them down with hot water and they sit a few min and are soft and mushy when they eat them
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Location: On My Horse! | I've never soaked my cubes..Never had any issues.. |
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Location: West Texas | D&D Nutrition's Alfa-Lux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkY8MGPcA9w
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Hay cubes you DON'T have to soak?