lowest sugar/fat unmolassed chaff?

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Need to go feed shopping and would like to get some very low sugar unmolassed chaff. I have been feeding mollichaff apple chaff but 1 of them is geting a bitty porky so would like to cut out the molasses. Is hifi light one of the best to get? Thanks in advance X
 
thanks clairefeekerry yup had a quick look it does seem to be the lowest but wasnt sure in case i had missed a brand i hadnt heard of x
 
Finding a chaff without molasses is almost impossible - what is it with all these feed companies insisting on adding molasses to everything... even chaffs that are marketed for laminitics?

Hifi lite still has quite a high molasses content - depsite the name! I'd avoid it myself. TopSpec seem to be the only company making an unmolassed chaff at the moment - their TopChop Lite is molasses and preservative free.

Simple Systems also do a couple of unmolassed chaffs - one with alfalfa, one without.
 
The TopSpec chaffs are unmolassed - they seem to go down well with all of ours!
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Mollichaff make an unmollased one - it's what I feed to my horse who's had ulcers:

http://www.friendshipestates.co.uk/vmchk/mollichaff/mollichaff-high-fibre-alfalfa.html

The reason companies dress chaff with mollasses is because the 'leafy' bits get crushed to a powder in the bags, meaning customers complain about handfuls of 'dust' at the bottom of the bags which they 'can't' feed. The mollasses coat the stalks and stick the leafy dust onto them so customers are happy. I had a long chat with a feed manufacturer about it!
 
gedenskis_girl thanks for that yes i know i bought a bag of cheap own brand hay mix last time i went feed shopping the girl at the counter told me it was just chopped straw and hay with very little molasses i thought great, opened it and it was gross totally covered in the stuff and really sticky to touch, i took it up to the local horse charity and they were delighted. well i shall have a look at the top spec 1 thnks for that x
 
Spottedcat thanks for that i totally never realised mollichaff did an unmollassed one or the reason they put the stuff in everything. x
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The topspec one is, IMO, megabucks for what is in it! The TopChop Lite, for example, is identical to the Mollichaff High Fibre I have linked to above, and a 15kg sack costs £8.95 - I pay £6.50 for the Mollichaff!

The TopChop Alfalfa is £9.95 per 15kg bag and is pretty much identical to Mollichaff Alfalfa Oil which is £9.40 (or thereabouts) for 18kg....

Don't get me wrong, I think TopSpec products are great, I feed the balancer, but I think their 'chops' are rather over-priced!
 
QR: The Mollichaff Alfalfa oil is unmollased too - Mollichaff do a great range of chaffs at a sensible price IMO, super company. I do have to get my feed store to order in the high fibre alfalfa specially, but that's no big deal.
 
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Hifi lite still has quite a high molasses content - depsite the name! I'd avoid it myself.

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I believe that HiFi Lite is 4% sugar, hardly "a high molasses content"
 
I don't feed anything with molasses in it - so anything is high to me. Where did you get that 4% figure from btw... a link would be great. Trying to get actual molasses and sugar content out of these feed companies is like getting blood from a stone.

Re the Mollichop High Fibre - it contains alfalfa. Some horses really can't tolerate alfalfa and it can be a lami trigger, or even just sole sensitivity for some, or bad behaviour in others. But if your horse copes with alfalfa fine then that would be a good option
 
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I don't feed anything with molasses in it - so anything is high to me. Where did you get that 4% figure from btw... a link would be great. Trying to get actual molasses and sugar content out of these feed companies is like getting blood from a stone.

Re the Mollichop High Fibre - it contains alfalfa. Some horses really can't tolerate alfalfa and it can be a lami trigger, or even just sole sensitivity for some, or bad behaviour in others. But if your horse copes with alfalfa fine then that would be a good option

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The flip side to that is alfalfa is very very good for horses which have had/are prone to ulcers and because the high fibre one comtains straw it is doubly good because it provides really good long fibre for buffering against splash ulcers.

Can I also say it is molliCHAFF (two 'l's and chaff) not moliCHOP (one 'l' and chop)- two different brands, two different companies, Mollichaff make several unmollased chaffs, molichop is a mollassed chaff and if someone goes and orders moliCHOP and not CHAFF they will get totally the wrong thing which is completely unsuitable. So it is important.

Mollichaff is made by the same people who make horsehage so it is really good quality stuff.
 
Just to throw a spanner in the works, if you are worried about weight gain you have to look at the overall DE of the product, not just the sugar content. Dengie good do-er is about the lowest energy level i know of, at 7. I dont know the sugar level but anything under 8% is low.

Applechaff is only 7.5 DE mj/kg but at about 18% sugar that is high. Look for a low energy AND a low sugar product.
 
Simple Systems do 4 chaffs - none have anything in them other than grass or alfa.

Ruff Stuff is the low cal grass version Lucie Stalks is the alfa version.

Just Grass is the higher protein and more food value and Green Gold is the highter alfa one.

I have used all four over the years depending on the time of the year and various horses and they all been eaten up and enjoyed by them.

I do damp them down and in winter they have speedibeet with them and that is it apart from a vit supplement and all have done very well on them.
 
thanks all for the advice i like to give him chaff to bulk out his feed and stop him bolting his supper, i also feed fast fibre and some fibre cubes. x
 
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