apple chaff??

[lunarlove]

Just wanted peoples opinions on Apple Chaff, I have a 16.2, 16 year old warmblood gelding that has LOTS of nervous issues and needs lots of TLC, I only feed 1/2 scoop dodsons Leisure mix twice daily and 1 scoop apple chop but a few people have suggested the apple chop may have a high sugar content and not be helping his quirks? opionions would be greatly appriciated!!

 

[Elsiecat]

Apple chaff is usually incredibly high in sugar and cr*p. I'd cut that out straight away.

 

[skint1]

I agree, my daughter shocked me by choosing it for her Tb gelding, fair enough he loved it, but for him it wasn't a good choice. He's on HiFi Original now

 

[Highlands]

Sends my highland loopy!

 

[lunarlove]

thanks for that guys, would you reccomend just a plain chaff?

 

[spike123]

my boy is on it with no issues at all and does have problems with mollasses and loads of sugar. It's aparantly low sugar/ natural sugars and our chiro said that her vet had recommended it for her laminitic pony in the past.

 

[be positive]

my boy is on it with no issues at all and does have problems with mollasses and loads of sugar. It's aparantly low sugar/ natural sugars and our chiro said that her vet had recommended it for her laminitic pony in the past.

If you look at the analysis it has 17- 22% sugar, that is extremely high and I would not feed it to a laminitic, vets are not always that clued up on feeds or nutrition, sugar, natural or otherwise is not good for any horse.