On the Gulf coast you can do this just fine except for the summer. In the hot, humid air of the Gulf coast summer, if you start to soak the beet pulp at say 7 AM and don't take it into some type of air conditioning it will be rancid by about 2 PM.
T Lif Strand wrote: > Quoted from a 04:47 PM 5/4/02 message: > >> you really have to plan ahead- soak them too early and they get >> rancid, soak them too close to feeding and they aren't fully soaked... > > > I use bermuda/alfalfa blend pellets which I feed mixed with beet pulp > pellets, and generally start the next meal's batch just after feeding > the prior meal. In the winter I keep the buckets in the house so they > don't freeze, but they're outside all the time now. I've never had > any problems with rancidity or fermentation. Don't know, maybe the > addition of bermuda grass in the pellets makes the difference and I've > just been lucky. > > Lif Strand > Quemado NM USA =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
