weebarney
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How do you feed them? It doesn't really tell you on their site. I was looking for a non molassed chop for my horses feeds but most of their products seem to be blocks, are they meant to be instead of a Haynet ?
Halleys blox
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Pearlsasinger
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I got a bag of their hay chaff.
I put the blocks in a trug, to catch the bits that drop off as they are eating.
I put the blocks in a trug, to catch the bits that drop off as they are eating.
twobearsarthur
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Honey just has hers on the floor in her stable she absolutely loves them. Great product.
weebarney
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Do you use them as an alternative to hay or as an addition? Having not seen them I can't get my head round how long a bag would last.
Lancelot
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Interested in this too, how long would 1 block last?
Brightbay
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They do blox and chops? I have used both.
The chops are great - huge big bags that seem to last forever, and horses will eat them without anything added. I use the Timothy chop.
I've also used Timothy blox and the Big Fibre blox. The horses love them, but they don't last long - I just use them as emergency forage for if there's a heavy snowfall, for example. Each block weighs a kilo, and lasts a big hungry horse about 15 minutes. I've tried to work out ways of slowing eating (putting them in a net, for example) but not succeeded so far... in the net, they just chose to dig in the snow for grass instead
The chops are great - huge big bags that seem to last forever, and horses will eat them without anything added. I use the Timothy chop.
I've also used Timothy blox and the Big Fibre blox. The horses love them, but they don't last long - I just use them as emergency forage for if there's a heavy snowfall, for example. Each block weighs a kilo, and lasts a big hungry horse about 15 minutes. I've tried to work out ways of slowing eating (putting them in a net, for example) but not succeeded so far... in the net, they just chose to dig in the snow for grass instead
WelshD
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I used them in the winter when the ponies were in to supplement the hay and make it last longer
One of these blocks companies say they are the equivalent of a section if small bale hay but I would say that's optimistic
I still use them now when one of the ponies comes in but I soak a block in a bucket ofwater and he has that to eat in addition to a small haynet which I find works much better than fed dry. When out in the field both ponies get this wet chaff with their supplements in which seems to work well
Fed dry I think my 11hh pony can polish off a block in ten minutes but there is a lot of waste and dust which he blows everywhere
The dry blocks are brill for sheep and goats though!!
One of these blocks companies say they are the equivalent of a section if small bale hay but I would say that's optimistic
I still use them now when one of the ponies comes in but I soak a block in a bucket ofwater and he has that to eat in addition to a small haynet which I find works much better than fed dry. When out in the field both ponies get this wet chaff with their supplements in which seems to work well
Fed dry I think my 11hh pony can polish off a block in ten minutes but there is a lot of waste and dust which he blows everywhere
The dry blocks are brill for sheep and goats though!!
TPO
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I use the timothy chop too and a bag (17.5kg &£11.50) lasts me at least 6wks.
I give a blox dry just as another fibre source along with adlib hay.
Another livery at the yard doesn't feed hay and gives her horse 2 soaked blox at night. Soaked it lasts much longer.
I give a blox dry just as another fibre source along with adlib hay.
Another livery at the yard doesn't feed hay and gives her horse 2 soaked blox at night. Soaked it lasts much longer.
Brightbay
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Thanks for the blox soaking trick - I will use that next winter 
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Are these available in the london / essex area??
Brightbay
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As far as I know, Halleys deliver anywhere in the UK? No problem getting a delivery in Scotland anyway, but I think they do further afield too, because they use Parcelforce.
Hen
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They deliver all over and are very very efficient. I give one blox per horse in the afternoon as a hay replacer, mine love either the Greengold or Ad Lib; very occasionally (when it is as hot as it is today) I might soak one blox down prior to feeding to ensure they get enough water in the system but generally they prefer to gnaw on one dry. Brilliant low sugar feed.
teasle
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Please can you explain why you use them- am not being critical, really want to know. I looked into them but they aseemed an expensive way of feding forage when could just give another section of hay- soaked if needed?
Hen
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Several reasons, from my perspective: they take longer to get through than an equivalent slice of netted hay; the horses seem to enjoy the gnawing more; the blox are easy to soak down to a huge bucket of wet chop (which I do sometimes in this sort of hot weather); they are much lower in sugar than the hay I have had access to and I also use one Greengold a day to top up one horse's protein requirement; the bags are easy to transport and each block is of a consistent, defined weight so when we are away from home it's easy to know how much they are getting and it's of a consistent, low sugar quality (unlike forage you can buy on a showground). Lots to like, for me!
Brightbay
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I used them last winter as emergency forage. For example, we had an unexpected snowfall in December, well before we were feeding hay in the field, and I was able to drop off blox until the hay could be got through.
I also used them at the end of the winter when we were starting to wean them off hay - I gradually fed less hay but threw in a few blox for them to nibble.
This is field kept horses, by the way.
I also used them at the end of the winter when we were starting to wean them off hay - I gradually fed less hay but threw in a few blox for them to nibble.
This is field kept horses, by the way.
WelshD
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For me part of the attraction is that they take up less room and so I stack bags of these in gaps in my hay/feed store as emergency feed should the hay start to run low for some reason.