Dengie Hi Fi Molasses free? Anyone feeding it?

Kenzo

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Yes I feed it with sugarbeat, fastfibre and the Dengie Alfa A Oil.

There is one thing however I have noticed with my latest bag, not sure if they have added something else to it but it has this strange sweet sickly smell to it now. :confused:
 

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I would feed it if
a) my feed store stocked it, or
b) it was cheaper than the current no molasses chaff I'm using.
But because of a I'm unlikely to find out b!!

I feed topspec topchop lite (no added sugar chaff, with some dried mint added). I feed it with water (posh mum me!) or a little sloppy sugar beet to put their supplements in. Both ours love it.
 

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hifi molasses free works out at 58p a kilo in the south just to give you an idea festiveneighs, i would feed it if i had my mare back as i don't like giving to much sugar to horses as they get enough naturally from grass hay etc.
 

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Ok so what is the difference between that, the hifi lite and the good doer?? I am looking for something with no calories for my chaps but to give them something to eat with their supplements.
 

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hifi lite and good doer both have sugar added in the form of a low sugar molasses. I won't feed mine food with sugar added to it (blows their mind and messes with their feet!) which is why I choose a non-molassed chaff. I think the good doer is designed as a complete feed, but if you are adding supplements anyway you may find you are better off with just a chaff.
 

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I feed it and mine seems to really like it. It has something in to make it palatable because it smells like herbs. She prefers it to alfaA which surprised me a bit but I'm glad she does. She doesn't like the nuts in it though. (There are just a few mixed in, I assume grass nuts?) She leaves them. But out of a whole scoop there are probably about six in there so hardly a big issue!
 

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I feed it with Baileys lo-cal and they love it!

I also feed Sloppy A&P Fast Fibre soaked with warm water with it when the weather is this cold as a way of getting extra fluid into them. No other concentrates just good quality hage.
 
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