Does anyone feed hay chop as chaff?

[Silly Filly]

My boy is currently on molassed chaff (only gets a handful to go with balancer) but want to give him something more natural, don't want it to have alfafa in it though as he's very sensitive and also highly strung.

Been looking at Halley's hay chop and just wondering if I can feed that as a chaff?

 

[TGM]

Of course you can! That's what they did in the old days before these new-fangled molassed straw chaffs were invented. Grooms would use a hand operated chaff cutter to manually chop the hay.

 

[MotherOfChickens]

yes I am currently feeding Thunderbrooks but will soon swap to Halleys.

And we had one of those old chaff cutters, I was about 7/8 and the novelty used to wear off pretty quick and dad would have to finish it. It was a beautiful thing though, weighed a ton.