Avoiding mollasses - Alfa Oil or Readigrass/Just Grass?

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Am at my wits end with Boo's lumps now, and have narrowed the causes down to being dietary related, so I'm thinking the culprit is mollasses
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I need to replace her HiFi Lite with something...

Any experiences/views on either Alfa Oil or any of the pure dried grass products?

Do horses tend to go loop the loop on either of/both the products - that is my primary concern!
Also, is it hard to get hold of the grass products all year round? I don't want to start her on them if I find I can only get them sporadically
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I use Readigrass and it's fine. Can get hold of it all year round and a bale last ages.

Haven't noticed any loopyness but then he's a bit of a fruit anyway
 
My mare is a glutton but the one thing even she won't eat is Readigrass. Just a warning so that you might ask Spillers or whoever to send a sample before buying a bag!
 
Thanks all
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_daisy_, I looked into SS a couple of years ago but they didn't have many distributors down this way at that point and it would have meant me buying palletloads at a time, which I don't have the storage or the cashflow for. Things may have changed now though I suppose?

Snowdrop - she'll give most things a go, but if she won't eat it then I'm sure my others will oblige
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Mollichaff High Fibre Alfalfa-has no molasses and is a straw/alfalfa chop coated in oil. alfa a sends mine loopy as did anything molassed, he was also too fussy to eat Happy Hoof so might be worth a try. quite cheap as well.
 
we have this probelm with the pyscho dales one and i tok the step of removing all traces of sugar in his diet.....we now feed our own chaff which i know hasnothing in it...ride and relax, fibre sure garlic and sunflower seeds and can honestly say i have never looked back....
 
Redigrass has a thumbs up from me too, please make sure you dampen it though and give it a good crush up with your hands as sometimes its a bit spikey, not all but many horses have been known to cholk on it including one of my past horses, however I still use it.
 
Thanks everyone for your input
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I ended up getting Alfa Oil as the feed merchant (Don't panic Shils, it wasn't RF!) didn't have any grass products in stock, and said there weren't any to be had now until the next harvest because of the awful summer we had last year
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Now just to convince her to eat it!
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