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Location: NE Texas | Are you feeding it free choice? In addition to grain? In place of grain?
I have a dealer close to me and am able to get it reasonably. |
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| my husband feeds it to his heel horse in addition to his usual feed |
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Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | runnin.on.dreams - 2015-02-25 11:31 AM my husband feeds it to his heel horse in addition to his usual feed
And in addition to grass hay or not? |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I got some to try, thinking it would be a great addition for the geriatrics. Neither one of them like it. Even after a week of trying various ways to get them to eat it, they still want nothing to do with it. The other 3 and the **** donkey think it's candy. |
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | Chaffhaye is a great product but not a total hay replacment! For digestive health you really need to feed at least 1% bw of long fiber hay. I switched all of my horses (20) to free choice Chaffhaye that was marketed to me as a total hay replacement. I ordered several pallets. None of my horses kept condtion that I liked. after reseach and talking to others who fed it almost all of them offered oat hay, grass hay or pasture along with it. However this is kept hush hush by Chaffhaye, and when posting and asking on the facebook page these issues are always deleted.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Herbie - 2015-02-25 11:42 AM runnin.on.dreams - 2015-02-25 11:31 AM my husband feeds it to his heel horse in addition to his usual feed And in addition to grass hay or not?
I was thinking having more useable roughage available would help cut down on the amount of feed they need. Both of them stay fat on good pasture, but I have to feed a lot to maintain their weight when there's not much grass. Hay just doesn't do it, especially for the dude with teeth missing. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I have just been feeding it more like a supplement to try and help get a little bit more weight on my gelding. I like that my supplements will stick to it, so I just fill a big bucket up with his morning feed mix in. I have good quality alfalfa that I supplement 2x a day and a good bermuda grass bale 24/7 so I'm not using it as my sole forage... I'm not sure I could afford that! I hope to get him up to where he can have it at his sole forage while hauling because it would sure help out on mess! |
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Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | Three 4 Luck - 2015-02-25 11:48 AM Herbie - 2015-02-25 11:42 AM runnin.on.dreams - 2015-02-25 11:31 AM my husband feeds it to his heel horse in addition to his usual feed And in addition to grass hay or not?
This is what I was thinking too. Especially for my one problem child that has bad allergies to dust and what not. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | The ones I'm feeding it to get as much as they want. I keep a tub full for them. They are either growing babies or my old mare with missing teeth. I do agree that they need grass hay to go along with it. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | I've fed 1-2 scoops per day along with grain and grass mix hay, small amount of Alf cubes and had some improvement in weight/ condition. I feed it mainly as a supplement and partial replacement to their cubes/beet pulp/ hay. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I use chaffhaye to replace alfalfa since it's sometimes difficult to find quality, consistent alfalfa in my area. Mine still get free choice hay via a round bale and grain. But I can say I have cut back on the amount of grain I use since starting with chaffhaye. In the beginning none of mine really liked the chaffhaye but once they started eating it they loved it. I even put out some flakes of alfalfa recently and the mares didn't touch it. They ate the chaffhaye. |
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Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | Thanks all for the info. I appreciate it! |
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| I just switched over to it. Mine still get coastal and baled alfalfa. I don't feed a grain, I feed Renew Gold and use the chaffhaye to put it and other supplements (if needed). I was feeding beet pulp- they looked and felt great on the BP but I felt the chaffhaye was a cleaner and more nutritious product. Mine did not like it at first but now they gobble it up, they also have 100 acres to graze so come spring I will cut back on the chaffhaye and alflafa cause they get fat on pasture and RG. |
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Location: Home....Smiling M Farms | Mine get 5-10 lbs of it a day. On top of their grass hay and a little grain. Pretty much everyone at my place though is a baby or a baby maker. :) |
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Location: Finally horseback again.... | I tried it a couple years ago and mine thought I was trying to poison them.
Would not touch it. ( and you know my kids LOVE to eat!!)
I have heard some love it and some hate it.
I would be a little first before committing to a large amount, |
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Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | Canchasr1 - 2015-02-26 4:02 PM I tried it a couple years ago and mine thought I was trying to poison them.
Would not touch it. ( and you know my kids LOVE to eat!!)
I have heard some love it and some hate it.
I would be a little first before committing to a large amount,
Hey lady, just saw this. I bought 3 bags and the youngsters were skeptical at first but then they dove in. When Ricky gets home I may get some more since we're having some allergy dust issues. He probably won't eat it though, of course.....he's a DIVA!!!!! |
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Location: Finally horseback again.... | Herbie - 2015-02-27 9:02 AM Canchasr1 - 2015-02-26 4:02 PM I tried it a couple years ago and mine thought I was trying to poison them.
Would not touch it. ( and you know my kids LOVE to eat!!)
I have heard some love it and some hate it.
I would be a little first before committing to a large amount, Hey lady, just saw this. I bought 3 bags and the youngsters were skeptical at first but then they dove in. When Ricky gets home I may get some more since we're having some allergy dust issues. He probably won't eat it though, of course.....he's a DIVA!!!!!
LOL. Are we sure Ricky and Kitty Kat arent kin? Both Divas.
Cat mean mugged me and turned her nose up. LOL
I cannot wait for Prince Richard to get home!!! |
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Location: Abbotsford B.C. Canada | As an alternative have you tried using beet pulp (fed wet of course) as a hay replacer especially for older horses with poor teeth? We also have good luck with pure soyhulls soaked and fed like beet pulp. Our beet pulp has fairly high calories but it has molasses added. Some beet pulp has so much binder added it does not soak well or have the calories. You can even add some alfalfa cubes or pellets.
We also have good luck feeding a blend of soyhulls and beet pulp . I fed 5 lbs a day dry weight of soyhulls to my TB mare last year as I needed a hay extender due to a hives issue and she was fine. Soyhulls would be about the same as regular to average hay for calories and beet pulp would be like very good hay or pasture.
The water would be a great benefit as well. Soak them both at least two to one with water.
A colleague of mine a professor at U of Ky suggests that horses can eat about 25% more hay as cubes than long hay so it helps for older horses to get cubes. This is the same hay fed cubes vs long ie baled right out of the same field.
Cheers,
Coastal Rider
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Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | I have actually fed both beet pulp and soaked pellets. I have one horse who will pick out the beet pulp when soaked with hay pellets. He disliskes it that much, but he dislikes everything. He does love soaked alfalfa pellets though. Will just have to see what he's interested in when he gets home.
The chaffhaye looked good enough for me to eat....heck even my dogs were loving it! HAHA |
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