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baybertha

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I have decided to change my horses feed in the summer months to a chaff along with spillers daily balancer and horse & pony cubes. I am currently unsure of which chaff to feed him. He is a 16.1 dutch warmblood and I am looking for a very simple plain chaff with little extra sugar. Any suggestions?
 
Thunderbrook is good, nothing added. Used to be quite hard to get hold of but (in my area) lots more stockists recently.
 
I use either TopChop Zero or Lite depending on the horse. Most of my competition horses get just chaff and balancer in the summer. Only one gets a half ration of balancer (one cup) and a half ration of competition mix (1 scoop) as he is a very laid back chap who needs a bit more oomph (working advanced dressage).
 
eggs said:
I use either TopChop Zero or Lite depending on the horse. Most of my competition horses get just chaff and balancer in the summer. Only one gets a half ration of balancer (one cup) and a half ration of competition mix (1 scoop) as he is a very laid back chap who needs a bit more oomph (working advanced dressage).
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Having done some more research I think I'm going to go for either topchop lite or zero. How do you decide which to feed to your horses?
 
Well it has to be molasses/molgo free and not contain alfalfa. The reasons for this are that I want to feed low sugar feeds and my gelding becomes ever so itchy when he eats alfalfa. So I'm pretty much left with plain grass chaff or plain straw chaff. Straw chaff is good for the good doer and the fusspot finds the grass chaff tasty.

That's how I choose anyway.
 
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I have a monster of a chaff cutter sitting redundant in my barn, if anyone is local to me feel free to come use it
but I don't want to help, provide the hay/straw, bags or try to move it :)
 
I feed mine on HappyHoof chaff, they have that with a spillers lite balancer, fills them up but doesnt give them loads of sugar, feed mine on this all year round and they live out. Keeps them a nice weight and pretty cheap as well. :) They also do a molasses free version
 
baybertha said:
Having done some more research I think I'm going to go for either topchop lite or zero. How do you decide which to feed to your horses?
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The two that need to watch their weight are on Top Chop Zero and the others are on Tom Chop Lite.
 
Is there any reason for wanting to feed a chaff? If he's getting a balancer and nuts imho it's just a waste of money
 
fredflop said:
Is there any reason for wanting to feed a chaff? If he's getting a balancer and nuts imho it's just a waste of money
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I'd rather feed a chaff than nuts personally - imho horse and pony nuts are basically compressed floor sweepings. At least chaff makes them chew a bit, and its easier to select one that isn't full of crap.
 
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