Alfalfa free chaff

[DoesDressage]

My horse is allergic to alfalfa. I'm struggling to find a good chaff to give her. So far my only options seem to be mollichaff or Saracens low calorie chaff.
Does anyone know of any others? As well as being allergic to alfalfa she's extremely sensitive to high starch and protein feeds. Any advice would be great.
Thanks

 

[EquiEquestrian556]

Just Chop, by Justfeeds. It's just got meadow hay and oat straw in it, nothing else. Great for good doers I find, or those allergic to certain things. http://justfeeds.co.uk/products/just-chop/

 

[fairyclare]

Thunderbrooks Healthy herbal chaff - no nasties, no alfa, just chopped grasses and herbs. My horses love it.

 

[Milkmaid]

Agrobs Aspero is made of a mix of herbs & grasses made without additives. It smells amazing and the horses live it!
If this isn't an option then a grass chaff like Graze On would be my next choice.

 

[gina2201]

Honeychop!

I had the same issue as you trying to find one. Although my mare not allergic she did have a spot of mud fever that wouldn't shift so I was willing to try anything and everything as she could be sensitive to it and found Honeychop which was highly recommended on here.

 

[Pinkvboots]

The Green graze on its just dried grass.

 

[Doublethyme]

Mollichaff calmer chaff is mollasses and alfalfa free and cheap and easy to get hold of.

 

[BethH]

I second the Agrobs, quality is super, the museli is great if you want it have have slightly more to it than the aspero. Mine became allergic to alfalfa after changing to a different feed company, switched to agrobs and it is the best feed I have come across and very reasonably priced, he looks super on it.

 

[MotherOfChickens]

mine, even my ponies, stopped eating plain chopped straw. They do like the Halley's timothy chop though. For the youngster (not a pony) I am trying the Agrobs muesli though and he seems to love it (he's fussy)-its low starch but about 8% protein from memory. Some of the flash dried grass is relatively high in protein and sugar. He didn't much care for the Thunderbrooks chaff and actually one of the ponies wasn't fussed about it either-might have been the linseed oil coating.

 

[Jericho]

Thunderbrooks Healthy herbal chaff - no nasties, no alfa, just chopped grasses and herbs. My horses love it.

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[DoesDressage]

Thank you all. I will look into all the options

 

[nikkimariet]

Mollichaff calmer or Readi Grass?

 

[482739]

I use mollichaff calmer.. Horse is a different one! Always thought she was intolerant to alfafa! Smells great & £9 a bag!

 

[Fransurrey]

I feed mollichaff calmer (it is lightly molassed, by the way, but nowhere near the extent of honeychop and similar).

 

[Leo Walker]

I used Honey Chop chopped straw which is just chopped straw. Even there other stuff is only very lightly molassed

 

[DoesDressage]

Thank you. I think mollichaff is the way forward. I like the sound of the extra as it Alfa free and has added cuts and mins!