Best un-molassed chaff?

[Jazmyn101]

Just wondering what the best un molassed chaff is, horse is in hi-fi lite and top spec cool balancer but I didn't realise the hi-fi lite was molassed 😒. I was thinking of hi-fi molasses free as I got a free sample from dengie and horse liked it but I can't stand the smell as it makes me feel sick, it has fenugreek in it?
Suggestions?

 

[MyDogIsAnIdiot]

Top Chop Lite? It's oat straw and alfalfa that's got some mint in it - smells nice!

 

[ester]

It probably depends on what sort of chaff you want. I am feeding d+h just grass this year, no coating and a grass mix not just ryegrass. There are a few other straw/alfalfa ones though.

 

[Holly Hocks]

Thunderbrooks meadow chaff. No added rubbish and no waste by products.

 

[Jazmyn101]

Hi just want a alfa a/straw mix, don't want a grass chaff as from my understanding they can be quite high energy, want low energy x

 

[L&M]

Hi fi molasses free - I have never noticed any smell?

 

[Jazmyn101]

Hi fi molasses free - I have never noticed any smell?

hmm, maybe it was just the free sample I got? Did smell a bit like curry and friend did comment that when she use to make curry she always out fenugreek in it?

 

[crazyhorse37]

Second top chop lite. Simple system also have some good alternatives

 

[ester]

http://www.halleysfeeds.co.uk/equinehighfibrechop.html

http://justfeeds.co.uk/products/just-chop/

or just straw so lower calorie?
http://www.honeychop.com/chopped-oat-straw.html

out of interest why do you want to feed the chaff? just for horse to have more than the balancer?

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Honeychop do a plain chop. If you prefer Dengie, you could try the Alfa A molasses free or the Healthy Hooves molasses free. ��

 

[Jazmyn101]

http://www.halleysfeeds.co.uk/equinehighfibrechop.html


http://justfeeds.co.uk/products/just-chop/

or just straw so lower calorie?
http://www.honeychop.com/chopped-oat-straw.html

out of interest why do you want to feed the chaff? just for horse to have more than the balancer?

Yes want her to have a bit more, she is food aggressive and bolts her feed down, wouldn't want her to choke on the balancer pellets x

 

[Jazmyn101]

Honeychop do a plain chop. If you prefer Dengie, you could try the Alfa A molasses free or the Healthy Hooves molasses free. ��

Will look at the honey chop, can't have pure alfa a as it gives her too much energy

 

[Highlands]

We use chestnut lite fom chestnut horse feeds

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

The digestible energy in the Dengie Healthy hooves mol free is only 8.5 even though it does contain some alfalfa.

 

[Bradsmum]

Watching this post with interest. When will the feed manufacturers react to the need for a unmolassed, non-alfalfa chaff that is widely available. I would like to try the honeychop but cannot find it locally.

 

[Britestar]

I asked my local country store to take in plain honeychop and now they sell loads of it. For the working boys, i add a little alfa oil,but the rest just get it plain.

 

[tallyho!]

Hey guys, just to throw some food for thought into the mix... I've completely gone away from alfalfa/straw mix chops. I just use pure grass chop now.

I don't mind just alfalfa but I recently found out some quite shocking stuff about straw that I am put off completely from ever using it as bedding or feed ever again!

 

[landf]

I use Hi-Fi Molasses Free and can't say I've noticed a strong smell. I'm very happy with it.

 

[Sandstone1]

Mollichaff have several sorts.

 

[fusspot]

I also use Hi Fi Molasses Free and definitely no smell-would maybe ask for another sample and explain why.

 

[Boysy]

Top Spec Top Chop Lite, i was going to try the HiFi Mollasses free last w.end until I realised that it actually is meant to be a complete feed on it's own, it has vitamins etc in it, pelleted within the chaff, considering i already feed balancer i didn't need the extra so went back to Top Chop

 

[wench]

Hi fi/Alfa a are not complete feeds. They are chaff only.

 

[Boysy]

Hmm that's not what their website says, admittedly it doesn't advocate as a complete feed but it certainly isn't just chaff, just chaff to me is chopped straw/hay or alfalfa.

 

[peanut]

I use Hi-Fi Molasses Free and can't say I've noticed a strong smell. I'm very happy with it.

As above ^^

 

[Bede]

Hey guys, just to throw some food for thought into the mix... I've completely gone away from alfalfa/straw mix chops. I just use pure grass chop now.

I don't mind just alfalfa but I recently found out some quite shocking stuff about straw that I am put off completely from ever using it as bedding or feed ever again!

Gosh, what's wrong with straw?

 

[ester]

Hey guys, just to throw some food for thought into the mix... I've completely gone away from alfalfa/straw mix chops. I just use pure grass chop now.

I don't mind just alfalfa but I recently found out some quite shocking stuff about straw that I am put off completely from ever using it as bedding or feed ever again!

I did do some pondering on deciding I wanted to add a chaff to his sugarbeet + oats, and was a little cautious about the grass ones on the basis that they are high energy (purely from a sugars/feet point of view, a bit of oomph isn't a bad thing) but I was adding it for palatibility reasons (he loves eating his neighbours pure feeds mixes!) and on the basis that what I add by way of weight is really pretty small (it is so light) that the overall energy impact on his diet probably isn't huge. Although I don't know the proportions in the just grass it seemed better than knowing it was just ryegrass (I think redigrass and perhaps graze on is?) and that it doesn't have any soya etc coating. What do you chose DFR?

Bede I suspect DFR is alluding to the various mould inhibitors etc used?

 

[Jazmyn101]

Thanks everyone, think I will try hi-fi molasses again or go for top chop lite. Have to be careful as horse is barefoot aswell so don't want high sugar as well as making her crazy x

 

[ester]

Fwiw mine is bare too, I did a fair bit of reading around before starting the grass chaff and it seems to be generally well tolerated (I think dfr has hers bare too)

 

[LadyRascasse]

You could just soak the balancer pellets so she can't bolt them They normally soak into a mash in about 5 mins, did it all summer as my horse doesn't like pellets. Literally just slightly covered them with water and they soak up into a mash, might take a little longer in the cold.

 

[spotty_pony]

Mollichaff Calmer - my two love it!