Please recommend a molasses free chaff for my yearling.

American Saddlebred x section d, currently on a cup of d&h suregrow, weaning her off the sugarbeet, garlic chaff and stud mix she was on as she was jumping out of her skin with way too much nervous energy on it! Saw big improvement after cutting it down gradually and now she is just on the suregrow with a handful of chaff and some carrots daily. Grass is good, smallish paddock but good. Not interested in hay when thrown in. To make 15hh thanks!!! x
 
tazzle said:
Maybe ask around the tack shops... our local one gets some done locally that are in plain sacks, no branding at all. Huuuuuuuuuuge sacks for about £6
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Agree. More feed merchants are doing them now.

Good, old fashioned hay chaff.

I had to order it in last year - now THREE local merchants are stocking it automatically :).
 
Does it have to be chaff. Fast fibre is a quick soak and it's brilliant. No molasses low sugar and includes essential vitamins nd minerals.
 
Aslong as you are feeding the correct quantities of sure grow the diet should be balanced. This means the chaff is less important in regards to providing minerals etc so any low cal chaff is fine. I use Spillers cool fibre.

Just watch the weight off your horse as sure grow is a balancer. The stud mix would be high in calories so you might find your horse might drop weight as calorie intake is now less.

How much of the mix was your horse on?
 
TBH, Suregrow does not need to be fed with anything else and if your paddock has good grass I wouldn't bother at all with a chaff as they never seem to bolt the SG, it's so small they spend time chasing it around the bowl instead and with that breeding it doesn't need the weight going on either. If you really need a chaff the Graze On by Northern Crop Driers is brilliant, very clean and just plain grass, horses love it.
 
Maesfen said:
TBH, Suregrow does not need to be fed with anything else and if your paddock has good grass I wouldn't bother at all with a chaff as they never seem to bolt the SG, it's so small they spend time chasing it around the bowl instead and with that breeding it doesn't need the weight going on either. If you really need a chaff the Graze On by Northern Crop Driers is brilliant, very clean and just plain grass, horses love it.
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Grass is good but the paddock is quite small. She has recently cut down from ALOT of food, i.e measured in smallish saucepan 1.5 scoops of sugarbeet, 1 scoop stud mix, 1 scoop chaff to a cup of suregrow and a handfull of garlic chaff (hence why want to swap to unmolassed chaff as she is still on molassed). The previous owner had her on all this (I havent moved her so was just following on with her diet until I started doing my own research). Now Im doubting she isnt getting enough when she had all this before....
 
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