Unmollassed chaff

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I'm looking for an unmolassed chaff for my horse. She currently has the very plain honeychop oat straw chaff but I'm going to be changing her feed and I know she won't eat that with the supplement.
What unmollassed chaffs do you use and preferably with no alfalfa. It seems this is such an almighty task to find one!
 
Top Chop Lite has no molasses but does contain alfalfa.
If you just need something to put the supplement in, how about bran?
 
You could use a plain grass chaff, or you could mix the supplement in with Fast Fibre or Speedibeet. It depends on why you are avoiding molasses/alfalfa, what other feed horse is getting and whether horse is good doer or poor doer etc.
 
TGM said:
You could use a plain grass chaff, or you could mix the supplement in with Fast Fibre or Speedibeet. It depends on why you are avoiding molasses/alfalfa, what other feed horse is getting and whether horse is good doer or poor doer etc.
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My horse is a good doer, she will just be getting a chaff and an all round vitamin and mineral supplement. I'm avoiding molasses and alfalfa due to the sugar- behavioural problems. She is quite sensitive to sugars.
 
HollieLD said:
My horse is a good doer, she will just be getting a chaff and an all round vitamin and mineral supplement. I'm avoiding molasses and alfalfa due to the sugar- behavioural problems. She is quite sensitive to sugars.
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Fast Fibre would be a good option then unless you are particularly keen to have a chaff. Something soakable like Fast Fibre is easier to mix powder supplements into than a chaff and it is low calorie/low sugar/low starch also.
 
I feed mine Mollichaff Calmer, I think it has a very small amount of molasses in but no alfalfa. My horses cope great on it! I only realised when I was asked to feed my friend's horses some Mollichaff Original just how molasses is in the normal chaffs! it's vile !!
 
Fast fibre is actually straw, with a chemical treatment to make it palatable-sweetened. Un-mollassed sugar beet is probably least interfered with feed but there are people that say it can cause problems of it's own. I find commercial feeds such a minefield now my horse is barefoot and I try to avoid processed feeds. Bit like trying to feed ourselves! I do feed fast-fibre but only enough to get vits and mins into him. Coolstance copra sounds like an option but my livery includes FF so using it for now.Good luck!
 
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