What do you guys think of this re fast fibre?

I have never feed it never would I can see no advantage to it and it's got minerals and vits added so you have to feed a certain amount or spend time guesstimating how much in what you are feeding and try and balance it put with something else .
 
Goldenstar said:
I have never feed it never would I can see no advantage to it and it's got minerals and vits added so you have to feed a certain amount or spend time guesstimating how much in what you are feeding and try and balance it put with something else .
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Most of us use it for a base to add minerals ie magnesium/copper/zinc which our forage is short of. I only use a handful a day so a bag lasts me months. It takes up very little of my time!
 
AngieandBen said:
Most of us use it for a base to add minerals ie magnesium/copper/zinc which our forage is short of. I only use a handful a day so a bag lasts me months. It takes up very little of my time!
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You are making my point why pay for something with minerals and vits added when you can use chopped straw and speedi beat and add your vits and minerals to that .
 
samlf said:
NaOH is used in lots of food science, all you do is add some HCl and it is neutralised to salt and water. Even if what this person said was true, and it was still in the feed when you fed it, the stomach contains HCl so it'd be neutralised anyway.
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Yes I agree, NAOH has been used for years in the food industry, not a "poison" as such.
The only thing that puts me off FF is the Selenium content if it is used as a hay replacement for oldies, as it is, I feed a petscoop per day, so the selenium should not be a problem.
I have no acces to chaff without additives, even my non molassed Dengie probably has an anti mould spray, but the days of making your own bruised oats and buying sacks of broad bran direct from the mill are gone.
 
Miss L Toe said:
Yes I agree, NAOH has been used for years in the food industry, not a "poison" as such.
The only thing that puts me off FF is the Selenium content if it is used as a hay replacement for oldies, as it is, I feed a petscoop per day, so the selenium should not be a problem.
I have no acces to chaff without additives, even my non molassed Dengie probably has an anti mould spray, but the days of making your own bruised oats and buying sacks of broad bran direct from the mill are gone.
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You can certainly get local bruised oats round here and plain chopped oat straw can be ordered from my feed merchant I have to do it in advance as he does not keep it in stock but that's not a big hassle .
 
Has anyone tried feeding Allen and page sugar and cereal intolerance diet as a base? Just curious- its what I used to feed my sugar intolerant cushings horse and he did extremely well on it :)
 
Goldenstar said:
You are making my point why pay for something with minerals and vits added when you can use chopped straw and speedi beat and add your vits and minerals to that .
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FF is cheap and nutritious, non heating, in winter I mix it with the speedy beet, neither of these have a specific known analysis of minerals available to us, and we don't know what exactly is in the forage either, so it is a guesstimate no matter what system you use.
I can t buy chopped straw, and it is hard enuff trying to buy feeds with no molasses / sugars / moglo / alfalfa for the barefoot, ideal is to buy a sack of FF, use one petscoop, and add water.
I prefer to have my boy on three types of feed, so if any one runs short there will not be an abrupt change of feed.
 
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I won't stop using ff, I also use it as a base feed for the whole yard and they all look great. Mine won't eat speedibeet and the supplements I use wouldn't be mixed in the same in chaff as in fast fibre. in winter they love the fast fibre warm as well. I only use a topspec measure full for the tbs and half a measure for the ponies. So a bad lasts a long time
 
Goldenstar said:
You are making my point why pay for something with minerals and vits added when you can use chopped straw and speedi beat and add your vits and minerals to that .
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I've used it because it has a lower energy content than speedibeet and when he was out of work he needed the lowest I could find though tbf we were struggling to get him to eat anything without his sugar fix ;) :)

Does sound like you have a good feed merchant though, I think we'd struggle!
 
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