Do you feed your horse chaff?

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Hi, I am currently undertaking research to find out which chaff is the most efficient at slowing down a horses rate of consumption hence optimising primary digestion and uptake of all the nutrients in the feed.

I would really appreciate your input by answering the following questions.

1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes
No

2)If yes, how many?
One
Two
Three
More

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
Full livery
Part livery
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes
No

5)If so how many hours average a day?
1-2 hours
3-4 hours
5-6 hours
more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes
No

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes
No

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A
Hi-fi lite
Ready grass
Molli chop
Bran
Sugar beet
including speedi beet
other filler (substance to slow eating/increase chewing)

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Cost
Efficiency of chaff
Storage
Temperament
Age
Job of horse
Other

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Pasture mix
Competition mix
Horse & Pony nuts
Conditioning cubes/mix
Slow release mix/cubes
Balancers
Straights ie: oats, barley, linseed, maize
Other cereals

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
One
Two
Three
More

12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg
3-5kg
more

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
2-4kg
5-7kg
8-10kg
11-12kg
More

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
Yes
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
Yes
No

Thanks again for your help!
 


1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
One


3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?
5-6 hours


6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
No - not particularly

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A - Oil


9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Efficiency of chaff - it's feed value



10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Horse & Pony nuts
Conditioning cubes/mix


11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two


12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg



13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?

Around 17lbs



14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No


15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?

No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?

No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
four

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?
5-6 hours


6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A
Bran
Sugar beet
including speedi beet
other filler (substance to slow eating/increase chewing) mollassed chaff

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Efficiency of chaff
Job of horse


10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Horse & Pony nuts
Conditioning cubes/mix
Balancers
Straights ie: oats (when in full work)
Other cereals Bran

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two
Three when in full work


12)In what quantity per day
3-5kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
ad lib hay

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes


15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
One

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?
more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Sugar beet

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Other

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Conditioning cubes/mix
Balancers

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two

12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
11-12kg


14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
1. Yes
2. 3
3. Kept at home
4. Yes
5. More
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Sugar beet (to one veteran horse only)
9. Age
10. Token handful of soaked fibre cubes for two of them, sugar beet and oats for oldie
11. Two feeds a day
12. 0-2 kg
13. Not sure - feed by eye - but lots!
14. Yes
15. No
16. No
 
1) Yes
2) Three
3) Have them at home
4) Yes
5) Depends, they tell me when they want to come in
6) Yes
7) Not really
8) Hi Fi & Molli chaff herbal
9) Its what they prefer, tried others they wont eat them
10) Conditioning cubes & Speedi beet
11) The 2 little ones get one a day, D gets 3 a day
12) 2 little ones a handful, D more than 5kgs
13) 2 little ones one small hay net each, never wieghed them, D as much as he can eat, but tbh he doesnt eat a great deal always has 2 full haynets available at any time, i'm lucky if he eats half of one on a good day
14) Yes
15) No
16) No
 
)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?

Three


3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?

DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes
N

5)If so how many hours average a day?

more - at least 12 hours, more in summer

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
speedi beet
other filler (substance to slow eating/increase chewing) <font color="red"> </font> I use cherry show shine OR veteran chaff for one horse, happy hoof for the 2 others as a complete feed

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Temperament
Age
Job of horse <font color="red"> </font> Body condiction score- 2 on permanent diets - one has trouble holding weight

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Slow release mix/cubes to the one who has trouble holding weight/condition
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11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?

Two


12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
More <font color="red"> </font> hay- ad-lib..theres always some left in the net..

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?

No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?

No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?

No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
One

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?
5-6 hours

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Job of horse


10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Competition mix
Balancers

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two

12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
8-10kg

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
Yes

Lou x
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
one and look after another

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?

DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?

more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A Oil
Ready grass
Sugar beet

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Job of horse and because they don't require anything else and I can use it to add certain supps in.

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
none

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
One

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
I don't weight it, just plenty to see them through the night.

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes - Dengie


15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?

No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?

No

Thanks again for your help! - your welcome!
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1)Do you own your own horse?
yes

2)If yes, how many?
One

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
out 24/7

5)If so how many hours average a day?
24/7

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
No - shes a slow eater anyway - i feed a bit of chaff to hold suppliments
Sorry read qu wrong!
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yes i belive it can - i don't feed for that though

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Molli chop - or any other cheap chaff


9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Cost

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
low work - Horse &amp; Pony nuts
comp/hunting - allan &amp; page power &amp; performance

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
two

12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
ad lib

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
One

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
Part livery

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
No

5)If so how many hours average a day?
3-4 hours

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Hi-fi lite

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Efficiency of chaff
Temperament

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Pasture mix

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two

12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
8-10kg

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
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1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
One


3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?

DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?

more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?

No

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?

Molli chop

Sugar beet
including speedi beet


9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?

Other - he prefers it.

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Conditioning cubes/mix

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two

12)In what quantity per day

3-5kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
I don't measure - he has as much as he wants

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?

No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?

No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?

No



[/ QUOTE ]
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
<font color="purple"> Yes </font>

2)If yes, how many?
<font color="purple"> Two </font>

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
<font color="purple"> Assisted DIY </font>

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
<font color="purple">Yes </font>

5)If so how many hours average a day?
<font color="purple"> 5-6 hours winter time anything up to 10 hrs in the summer </font>


6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
<font color="purple"> Yes </font>

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
<font color="purple"> Yes </font>

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
<font color="purple">Alfa A lite &amp; spillers happy hoof </font>


9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
<font color="purple"> Temprament </font>

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
<font color="purple"> competition mix </font>
<font color="purple"> Conditioning mix </font>

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?

<font color="purple"> Two </font>

12)In what quantity per day
<font color="purple">3-5kg </font>

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
<font color="purple"> 8-10kg dependant on grazing </font>

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
<font color="purple"> Yes </font>

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
<font color="purple">No </font>

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
<font color="purple"> No </font>
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?

Two

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?

DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?

more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?

No

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A

Molli chop

Sugar beet


9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?

Other

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Conditioning cubes/mix


11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?

Two

12)In what quantity per day

3-5kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?

8-10kg



14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes


15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
Yes


16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?

No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
Two

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?
5-6 hours winter time and 24/7 summer time


6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A Oil

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Condition

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?


11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?

Two

12)In what quantity per day
stubbs scoop

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
ad-lib

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
Two

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?
as much as poss with the daylight - at the mo get get about 7-8 hrs a day

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
No - they both seem to take the same amount of time regardless

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Hi-fi lite
speedi beet

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
low sugar and oil

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
none - neither needs extra. If they need a few more cals then they get some speedi beet added to their chaff. They both get pink powder everyday so they get their vits and minerals. The chaff is just a carrier for this.

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
One

12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
5-7kg - a bit more than usual at the mo as there is hardly any grass when they are turned out

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
Yes - one of them when on a different diet and competing regularly
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
More (7)

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
Own my own yard/farm, so at home

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
The 2 in work are in 24/7 in winter, 24/7 in summer, rest are out 24/7 all year round.

5)If so how many hours average a day?


6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?

Readigrass
Speedibeet

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Cost
Efficiency

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Competition mix
Horse &amp; Pony nuts


11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two


12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
Ad lib approx 10kgs

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes


15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
One, and I look after another full time

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?

DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?

more than 6 hrs - about 12 hours usually

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?

Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?

I'm not sure on this - my horse seems to eat everything at the same speed. Her feeds with chaff last longer than those without, but only because they are bigger!

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?

My mare gets Alfa A. The other horse doesn't have any chaff as her feeds are already quite large, and she doesn't bolt her food anyway.
Both have sugar beet. I use speedibeet -the other horse has normal soaked SB nuts

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?

Other - she likes it and it disguises the supplements she has

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Mine gets Pasture mix. The other has Cool mix and barley. Both also have sugar beet.

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?

Two

12)In what quantity per day

Mine has less than 1kg concentrates per day. The other has about 3 kg.

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?

ad lib. Mine has hay; the other haylage.

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?

Yes

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?

No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?

No
 

1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
One

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?
10hrs

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Hi-fi lite
speedi beet

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Other - he is barefoot so is fed a low sugar/high fibre diet. He is very active in field and needs a lot of fuel, so gets 2 large feeds of hifi, speedibeet and oil.

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
none

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two

12)In what quantity per day
3-5kg

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
11-12kg

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
4

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?
3 out 24/7 1 in at nights

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A
Sugar beet
including speedi beet


9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Other

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Pasture mix mare in light work
Conditioning cubes/mix new mare underweight
Stud Mix for the youngsters

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two for the mare &amp; youngsters
3 for the underweight mare

12)In what quantity per day
3-5kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
Adlib

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No

Touch wood in all my years to my knowledge none of my horses have had colic, azoturia or ulcers
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
One

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?

5-6 hours

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Molli chop

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?

Other: tradition

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Straights ie: oats, barley, linseed, maize : Barley

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?

Two


12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?

11-12kg


14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
One


3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?
5-6 hours
more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?

including speedi beet
other filler (substance to slow eating/increase chewing)
Mollichaff Show Shine

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Cost
Temperament
Age

Other ~ it has added soya oil

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Balancers ~Blue Chip


11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
One
Two


12)In what quantity per day
3-5kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
Adlib so no idea! between 6-10 slices a day

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes


15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?

No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
not sure I know she had a bit of colic after an operation.
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
One


3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?
5-6 hours
more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?

other filler (substance to slow eating/increase chewing)

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Efficiency of chaff
Other

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Conditioning cubes/mix


11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two


12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
5-7kg


14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
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1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
Eight


3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
All at home
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DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?

more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A
Hi-fi lite
speedi beet Fibre beet)


9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?

Efficiency of chaff

Temperament
Age
Job of horse


10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?

Horse &amp; Pony nuts
Conditioning cubes/mix

Balancers


11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?

Two



12)In what quantity per day

3-5kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
More

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?

No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?

No



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1) Yes


2) Two


3) Kept at home

4)Yes

5)5-6 hours a day


6)Yes

7)Yes with one, no with the other

8) Alfa A with Oil and speedibeet

9)Healthy way of feeding IMO

10) Just a vitamin supplement

11)Two

12) 3-5kg


13) Adlib

14) Yes -


15)NO


16)No
 
Hi, I am currently undertaking research to find out which chaff is the most efficient at slowing down a horses rate of consumption hence optimising primary digestion and uptake of all the nutrients in the feed.

I would really appreciate your input by answering the following questions.

1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
One


3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?

DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?

5-6 hours
more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes


7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Dengie Good-Doer
Speedi-beet in the winter

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?

Temperament
Job of horse


10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Spillers Hi Fibre Cubes
Blue Chip Original Balancer

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
One


12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg
and depending on work

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
ab lib

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes


15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?

No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?

No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes

2)If yes, how many?
One


3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes


5)If so how many hours average a day?
more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
other filler (substance to slow eating/increase chewing)
Hi Fi good doer

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Cost
Job of horse
Other, quality &amp; lo cal

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Competition mix (if in hard work)

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
One

12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
unsure, 3-4 slices

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
No

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
One

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?
5-6 hours in winter time and 24/7 in the summer

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Alfa A
Sugar beet



9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Cost and to help with the condition of said horse

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Conditioning cubes/mix
Barley

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two


12)In what quantity per day
3-5kg


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
5-7kg


14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
[ QUOTE ]
Hi, I am currently undertaking research to find out which chaff is the most efficient at slowing down a horses rate of consumption hence optimising primary digestion and uptake of all the nutrients in the feed.

I would really appreciate your input by answering the following questions.

1)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
Two

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
Part livery - done for me in the mornings and two days a week full livery

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes - 24 x 7 May to October and four days a week in winter
5)If so how many hours average a day?
more

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes


8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?

They are fed Simple Systems greengold and just grass chaffs with speedibeet and supplements of linseed, black sunflower seeds, vit and min supplement and the essential carrots.

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Other - I like my horses fed on forage only diet which provides what they need to kept condition and stamina when worked

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Pasture mix
Competition mix
Horse &amp; Pony nuts
Conditioning cubes/mix
Slow release mix/cubes
Balancers
Straights ie: oats, barley, linseed, maize
Other cereals

None of the above apart from grass nuts or cheap nuts in the winter in their balls when they come in from the field

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two plus ball in the afternoon

12)In what quantity per day
0-2kg

13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
ad lib - half a bale minimum


14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
No

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No



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)Do you own your own horse?
Yes


2)If yes, how many?
One

3)Are they on livery (full/part) or DIY?
DIY

4)Is your horse/horses turned out daily?
Yes

5)If so how many hours average a day?
more
Every day from 0800 - 1700

6)Do you decide on what feed they are fed?
Yes

7)Do you believe that chaff can slow down your horse’s rate of consumption (eating)?
Yes

8)Do you feed your horse any of the following?
Honey Chop

9)Why have you chosen to feed this chaff?
Cost
Qualitly of Chaff

10)What concentrates do you feed your horse/horses?
Pasture mix
Soon switich to a competition Mix

11)How many feeds does your horse get a day?
Two

12)In what quantity per day
weight im clueless on feed weight 1scoop chaff 1/2 mix


13)How much hay/haylage on average do you feed each horse a day?
8-10kg

14)Have you ever sought professional nutritional advice for your horse/horses?
Yes

15)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from impacted colic?
Not that I know off not in the 7 months ive had her

16)Has your horse/horses ever suffered from azoturia (tying up)?
No
 
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