Bear with me please because I'm DUMB about pellets/cubes/alfalfa!  Would I just S L O W L Y start on the cubes with their feed?  And is it pound for pound hay replacement?   Lord I wish our grass would double time it. . . 

Well when I first started adding cubes ... I just poured them about a half bucket full .. they didnt eat it all at once ... I kinda suspected they got tired of chewing them but eventually they cleaned them up.. it took them a few hours. I'd just start it slow, like when you add a new feed. In my opinion,  the cubes make them eat slower. I'm not a weigher, I just kinda feed on what they look like when it comes to forage ... some get a little more than others ... but I do know cubes are considered "long stem forage " and alfalfa packs more punch nutritionally ... 

Thanks so much--I think I'm gonna take the pellets back for cubes.  And will wet them .  We have 5 horses so not sure how that's gonna work, but we shall figure it out!  Appreciate your help and everyone else's advice too

My old mentor and trainer back in California, she is still training hunter jumpers and owns a pretty predominant training operation.. The only thing she has them feeding a barn full of very expensive,  LARGE  warmbloonds is alfalfa cubes... that's it... nothing else .. the boys scoop it up by the huge shovel full into a large cart and feed those talented monsters 3x a day like that. I often consider doing just that! I can't say if it's more cost effective or not but theres definitely no waste going on lol! Good luck with the cubes let us know how it goes! 

Another thing I noticed when I feed cubes is my horses definitely drink a lot more water, I have 1 in particular that isnt a good drinker in the stall, he will barely touch his water but when he eats cubes he will drink more than half his bucket of water. That's a good thing! Especially when it's so cold out. I notice they drink more on the cubes than alfalfa hay as well. I'm very obnoxiously observant when it comes to my boys

We're also running short of hay and I just upped the amount of Purina Equine Senior to our 26-year-old.  It's very moist and he loves it.  So do our dogs when he drops some on the ground, the little scavengers.

To add, it's very important that no matter what kind of pellets or cubes you feed, check the dates on the sacks.  I'm very picky about that and refuse anything older than a month.