Beet pulp pellets?

[Sanhestar]

the pre-soaking comes from feeding beet pulp to horses. If you go ahead and pre-soak a handfull of pulp in a bucket you can observe how much volume it gathers from soaking.

This isn't that much alarming in ruminants as their stomachs are larger than that of a horse. In a horse this can be a death sentence.

BUT if your goat is a greedy eater, it's possible that it won't chew the pulp well enough and the pellets get stuck in the oesophagus and soak = expand there. That isn't fun for the goat, for you because you have to get a vet out and can also threaten the live of the goat because the rumen gases can't be expelled = rumen expands, presses on the diaphragm and heart, in severe cases suffocation the goat from within.