Should I Enter Ingredients in FeedXL as Wet or Dry Weight?

This article: Should I Enter Ingredients in FeedXL as Wet or Dry Weight? was originally published to FeedXL

When using products commonly soaked prior to feeding (things like beet pulp, copra meal, high fibre pellets and hay that is soaked to remove sugars), always enter them into your FeedXL rations as their dry weight. The Two Main Reasons to Always Enter Dry Weight: When you add water it increases the weight of what you are feeding, but […]

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