Alfalfa, molasses free feed. Cheaper than pure feed?

[LittleBlueBird]

Looking for a cheaper alternative to pure feed but still without alfalfa or molasses.

Honey chop lite is a little cheaper, any other ideas welcome.
Thank you

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Grass chaff I use emerald grass tastic I think its under a tenner a bag.

 

[Fransurrey]

Looking for a cheaper alternative to pure feed but still without alfalfa or molasses.

Honey chop lite is a little cheaper, any other ideas welcome.
Thank you

Honeychop Lite is cheaper, but mine wouldn't eat it when I tried it a few years ago. Which Pure feed are you using? I feed Pure Easy and if one needs more condition I just add more linseed, buying the 20 Kg Charnwood Milling bag. Works out a lot cheaper than buying Pure Condition.

I honestly can't think of a complete alternative. If you just need it for a chaff, then I'd use Graze On or Dengie Meadow Grass with Herbs.

 

[teddy_]

TopSpec chaff is molasses free, as far as I am aware.

Also, as above, Dengie make a lovely grass chaff.

 

[LittleBlueBird]

Thank you, looking at the Top spec and Dengie.

 

[LittleBlueBird]

Honeychop Lite is cheaper, but mine wouldn't eat it when I tried it a few years ago. Which Pure feed are you using? I feed Pure Easy and if one needs more condition I just add more linseed, buying the 20 Kg Charnwood Milling bag. Works out a lot cheaper than buying Pure Condition.

I honestly can't think of a complete alternative. If you just need it for a chaff, then I'd use Graze On or Dengie Meadow Grass with Herbs.

Pure Feed fibre balance which is great and both horses are looking so good on it but it’s not cheap and we’re getting through it! My pony has sweet itch so avoiding anything with alfalfa to see if it makes much of a difference.
Dengie meadow grass looks like it might work.

 

[Fransurrey]

Pure Feed fibre balance which is great and both horses are looking so good on it but it’s not cheap and we’re getting through it! My pony has sweet itch so avoiding anything with alfalfa to see if it makes much of a difference.
Dengie meadow grass looks like it might work.

Ah, I have a pony with sweet itch, too. I don't find much difference between the Easy and Fibre - technically I should feed the latter, but the volumes I feed are negligible to the pony (token handful), so I feed Easy, as it's cheaper!

 

[poiuytrewq]

It’s really hard finding alfalfa and molasses free stuff!
I was using Honey chop but a lot was getting left and when I bought a new horse who was already fed Hifi lite I bought that to keep it the same for and just tried the others on it. It’s so easy to get hold of and to be fair they have hoovered it up and been ok *touch wood*
I may well try just a basic grass chaff though, I still feel a bit twitchy inside at giving alfalfa ?
Top Chop for mine is a definite no. Thunderbrooks is also not really liked but also awkward to get.

 

[rextherobber]

I feed Pure Fibre Balance, I don't think, once you add the cost of balancer, any other feed will work out much cheaper. When I had supply issues at Christmas ( not the fault of the company, I hasten to add, it was my inefficiency) I fed Honeychop lite and healthy micronised linseed and Dengie grass nuts instead. (Mine also like Pure Easy, but are currently mostly not doing the work to warrant it)

 

[rextherobber]

It’s really hard finding alfalfa and molasses free stuff!
I was using Honey chop but a lot was getting left and when I bought a new horse who was already fed Hifi lite I bought that to keep it the same for and just tried the others on it. It’s so easy to get hold of and to be fair they have hoovered it up and been ok *touch wood*
I may well try just a basic grass chaff though, I still feel a bit twitchy inside at giving alfalfa ?
Top Chop for mine is a definite no. Thunderbrooks is also not really liked but also awkward to get.

I do struggle with "Lite" feeds, ( and "Hoofkind") containing molasses, seems a contradiction in what they're trying to achieve...

 

[eggs]

It’s really hard finding alfalfa and molasses free stuff!
I was using Honey chop but a lot was getting left and when I bought a new horse who was already fed Hifi lite I bought that to keep it the same for and just tried the others on it. It’s so easy to get hold of and to be fair they have hoovered it up and been ok *touch wood*
I may well try just a basic grass chaff though, I still feel a bit twitchy inside at giving alfalfa ?.

HiFi Lite contains alfalfa though so this wouldn't work for OP.

 

[LittleBlueBird]

I’ve gone for Dengie meadow grass, for now. I do really like the pure feed but we are going through it so quickly!

 

[Annagain]

Any grass chaff will be cheaper than Pure Feeds, I would have thought. We use Graze-on as it's what our local shop stocks.

 

[Peglo]

I use readigrass for mine. They love it.

 

[poiuytrewq]

HiFi Lite contains alfalfa though so this wouldn't work for OP.

No I know. I was commiserating on what a difficult nightmare finding something without is

 

[Nasicus]

I've been using Mollichaff Light Molasses Free since it came out. I really like it, but more importantly so do the girls. Smells good, got little pellets in it like Pure Easy and it's very cheap, about £6.50 - £8ish depending where you get it.

https://www.horsehage.co.uk/horse-f...-chaffs-range/mollichaff-light-molasses-free/

Ingredients: Straw, Fibre Pellets, Soya Oil, Dried Grass, Limestone Flour, Salt, Flavouring

I asked what the fibre pellets are made of, and it's oat hulls/husks if I remember correctly.

Either way, I get clean bowls from all three even with some rather pongy supplements (Skratch, anyone?) and it's low sugar and starch, so it's a win from me!

 

[Sossigpoker]

The Allen and Page range. Fast Fibre is definitely free of both of those

 

[SEL]

Looking for a cheaper alternative to pure feed but still without alfalfa or molasses.

Honey chop lite is a little cheaper, any other ideas welcome.
Thank you

I do 50:50 pure feed with Honeychop chaff for the pony. Now she's on box rest it'll just be the chaff to save some £££

 

[GreyDot]

All those chops and chaff will work out cheaper than Pure but the point of Pure is that it is a complete feed, with the balancer included. Grass nuts or Readigrass etc. don't have balancer.

 

[LittleBlueBird]

I do 50:50 pure feed with Honeychop chaff for the pony. Now she's on box rest it'll just be the chaff to save some £££

Thank you

 

[LittleBlueBird]

Thanks all, I’ve got a few bags left and I’ll look at all the other suggestions.