Molliechaff Happy Hoof vs Dengie Alfa. Help Please :D

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My horse if having continually problems with her hooves, being crumbly. I've been looking at different feeds.
At the moment she is on Alfa and Lo-cal with supplements. The supplements i giver her are Biotin,Garlic and Glucosimine(for joints not hooves.) Also as suggested by my farrier we put Kevin Bacon hoof moisturiser on 3 times a week, and Keretex nail hole dicinfectant on twice a week, then Corno-cresin (sorry not sure on spelling) on once a week.

My farrrier has now suggested on adding another supplement to her feed, but found these all seem very expensive and reading reviews do not make much difference than just feeding biotin and putting things on hooves.

To save money i have looked at the mollichaff Happy Hooves this has biotin in, so i wouldn't have to feed as much biotin and it is also half the price of Alfa, has anybody swapped over and seen any effects, negative or positive.
Is mollichaff suitable for a 7yr old horse than can act a baby occasionally, but not too worried as it is only occasionally spurts of being hot, but i do have to watch her weight as she can put on very easily as well as drop very easily.

I will be very grateful for any help :D Thanks in advance.
 
Both the Happy Hoof and the Alfa-A have added molasses which you really need to avoid with any hoof issues. Dengie do a Healthy Hooves molasses free with hoof friendly vits and mins, so you might be better off with that.
 
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I also use dengie healthy hoof molasses free_ ideal for lami prone fatties but also use on a 4yr old barefoot tb. It is a complete feed if fed in correct quanitities as all vits and minerals they need are in it however it works out expensive that way so iused it alongside a lowcal balancer.
 
hi sorry i got the name wrong its Mollichaff Hoofkind.
referring to your post LittleBlackMule, it is supposed to be good for lamenetics does that mean it will be low in molasses?

Also thanks for your reply boooandellie i looked at it but i worked out very expensive for my horses weight.
 
Personally, I'd cut out as much sugar as possible and feed an unmolassed chaff (alfa a/hifi molasses free or alfa a oil depending on energy requirements) with balancer and biotin, then your dressings. If he needs extra energy, add a molasses free beet (or fast fibre is very popular). Low sugar and low starch is best for feet, and they take a long time to grow so change will be slow!!!
 
I think the mollichaff hoofkind is really good actually, much less molassed than I thought it would be, the calmer one is also good as only lightly molassed. They both smell really nice too, I think the hoofkind smells sort of herbal and the calmer smells minty. Of course no molasses would be better but my ponies really like this and will eat it whereas they leave things like simple systems.

Alfa A original is quite sticky and made my horse a bit angsted!
 
I would cut out the alfalfa-saw a whole RS lot of horses and ponies get bad feet on it after a couple of years. I am actually feeding Mollichaff Donkey to my native ponies atm, although it has molasses in it they look good on it, its low in sugar and protein and has added magnesium. I've fed Hoofkind in the past and both horses refused to eat it after a few months. There's also a little evidence that garlic isn't great for them so you could try cutting that out and save there as well.
 
I used dengi alfa a oil for a year until I found honey chop! My horse loves it! It comes in many flavours [garlic, apple, carrot ect] its also alot cheaper than Dengie!
 
Don't forget most of the Mollichaff range are all smaller bags! Hoof Kind is only 12.5 kilos, all the Dengie one's are 2okilos so don't be fooled into thinking it is expensive :)

Hi Fi molasses free ( in the lilac bag ) is great
 
AngieandBen said:
Don't forget most of the Mollichaff range are all smaller bags! Hoof Kind is only 12.5 kilos, all the Dengie one's are 2okilos so don't be fooled into thinking it is expensive :)

Hi Fi molasses free ( in the lilac bag ) is great
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This!! When I looked at changing from alfa-a oil, I couldn't find a molasses free chaff that compared to Dengie on price per kilo. So I stuck with it.
 
I also use Hifi molasses free with micronised linseed for my overweight one with rubbish feet, the feet are so much better my farrier and vet both said they are much better.
 
I tried the Alfa A Molasses Free on my boys last winter and out of 7 horses it caused 4 of them problems. It appeared to make 1 a little footy, knocked one right off his feet and the other 2 it caused hot filled legs and footiness - all of them are TBs.

Of course it might not have been the Alfa A but it seems a bit of a coincidence. I swapped them onto Mollichaff Calmer which I have to say I much prefer.
 
Indy said:
I tried the Alfa A Molasses Free on my boys last winter and out of 7 horses it caused 4 of them problems. It appeared to make 1 a little footy, knocked one right off his feet and the other 2 it caused hot filled legs and footiness - all of them are TBs.

Of course it might not have been the Alfa A but it seems a bit of a coincidence. I swapped them onto Mollichaff Calmer which I have to say I much prefer.
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Could well have been the alfalfa, Mollichaff Calmer doesn't contain any :)
 
That's what I thought Angieand Ben. I was going to try the hoofkind but noticed that it had alfalfa pellets which is why I tried the calmer. To be fair to the mollichaff calmer the sugar and starch in my eyes isn't actually that high.
 
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