Alfa A or Hi fi

I honestly don't know, but I can tell you that my very molasses/sugar intolerant boy (he's like a kid with raging ADHD on e-numbers if he so much as sniffs molasses) is just fine on Alfa A Molasses Free. Haven't tried Hi Fi Lite.

Hope that helps.

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Ok, sounds good. She will be having lo cal balancer and a bit of speedibeet along with it in about a months time, just trying to research and avoid a mad horse! I've been told by her previous owner not to feed with sugar/molasses stuff!
 
the Alpha a by default has a higher calorific value than the Hifi, so therefore you can assume it may be heating. Guess it depends on your horse
 
pip_dog said:
Ok, sounds good. She will be having lo cal balancer and a bit of speedibeet along with it in about a months time, just trying to research and avoid a mad horse! I've been told by her previous owner not to feed with sugar/molasses stuff!
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i feed exactly this mix to my sugar intolerant mare (including the alfa no sugar) , and she does fine on it.
 
Alfa A molasses free is pure alfa with a soya oil coating and so is 11.5mj/kg of energy, compare this to Hi Fi lite which is 50% straw and 50% alfalfa with a low sugar coating and is 7.5mj/kg of energy.

Neither is "heating" as fibre is a slow release energy source as it is digested in the hind gut..and are low sugar/low starch products...

however, pure alfa products are higher in slow release energy than the Hi fi ones. You would probably be best going for the Hi Fi Molasses free which is 50% straw, 50% alfa with a soya oil coating and a DE of 8.5mj/kg so this is molasses free which is what you require but also on the plus side is not a pure alfa product!
 
Its a tricky one, i fear i may have to wait and see what the riding results are! Her previous owner fed the alfa a, plus leisure mix and beet
 
alfa a oil is molases free and last ages for the money.. my nut job arab has it and dosnt heat him he cant have sugar beet or molases but alpha oil is intended for condition and is more useful for poor doers

have you tride calmer chaff i think its called its molases free and contains magnesium and camomile and is ideal for good doers, its very good!
 
My feed merchant got me in a bag if the Alfa a stuff. Will give it a go. Baileys themselves recommended it. And if it and the lo cal wasn't holding her weight enough. To add in some meadowsweet further into winter
 
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