Cheaper alternative to Saracen Shape Up and Slim Chaff

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Anyone know an alternative to Saracen Shape and Slim Chaff. Shape Up (20kg) is approx £17-£18 and Slim Chaff (12.5kg) is approx £7. It's very good but wondering if I could find something just as good but cheaper.... If that is even possible :) Thanks
 
What are you feeding for? Laminitis recovery/prevention or just general weight loss/managing a good doer? I've switched with no problems to and from Shape Up and Releve on various occasions and Releve is a little cheaper - slightly different formulation and higher energy but based on similar principles (beet pulp base, no cereals, low starch). I've not found a chaff as cheap as Slim Chaff but have had availability problems with it so now rely on Top Chop Lite.
Am using Top Spec Anti Lam at the moment and one bag is going to last me well over one month fed at the stated amount for a 15hh (but that places it at around the same cost/week as the Shape Up so that doesn't help you, sorry!).
 
I give it him for the vit/ minerals he doesn't get from hay.... It's such a mine field of feeds with what's out there.... He is in better condition on it.... Other low fat/ sugar ones I've seen have higher oat content... That can't be good?!
 
How about just feeding him a balancer or multivit in plain straw chaff, Honeychop do one. Or use something like fast fibre to carry a supplement. Both those are no sugar options as opposed to the slim chaff which is just slightly lower in sugar.

The problem with using feed to supply vitamins is that you have to then feed at the manufacturers recommended level which can not only work out expensive but also be too many calories.

If you are looking at low cal options I suspect what you are seeing is not Oats but Oatfeed which is the husks left over after the oats have been removed. Not that oats are bad if your horse needs them.
 
I also feed two very good doers and still use slim chaff - haven't found another oat straw chaff that isn't more treacle than chaff! You could swap the Shape to speedibeet as it'll work out much cheaper and easier to put any supplements in, too. If you want antacid, you could feed haylage balancer (I fed this despite them being on hay, as one has sweet itch and the other is lami prone), although yeast will also do the job.
 
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