HiFi is manufactured by Dengie whereas Mollichaff is a Friendship Estate product. You'd really have to study the ingredients and feed values to find out which would best suit your horses needs. Mollichaff products tend to be highly molassed... BUT horses LOVE sugar, so my gang really enjoy tucking into it
Oh its a difficult one. Hi fi is generally fed if molasses isnt wanted BUT it is however lightly molassed. Mollichaff is definately more tacky and no doubt more molassed but they advertise "with a low sugar molasses" I think Hi-fi looks dry and boring and so does Freddie lol! He much prefers mollichaff and I only feed a small amount. I have changed from the Original to Mollichaff Extra simply because it's a bigger bag and works out cheaper.
I have the same problem Hannah. Freddie only has a small feed so to make us both feel better I like to umph it up a bit lol! I dont know what you feed other than chaff but I have found the trick is to soak it a bit, that certainly does the trick. I feed dried grass nuts and they fluff up quite quickly with a drop of hot water. Or sometimes I will soak them overnight.
the concept of chaff is to make the horse chew more horses digest food by chewing which produces saliva...the more saliva produced the better the percentage digested
more of the food digested means less poo'd out! [less waste]
chaff used to be a 50:50 mix of chopped oat straw and hay. myold horsebooks say mollasses is only added to horse feed to make them eat it by disgusing poor quality feed and should be never done. how times have changed.
We use mollassed chaff- ours is called Bro Chaff, made by Carrs Billington, but is the same as Mollichaff.
I tried the Dengie chaffs and didn't like them- soory to anybody who loves them but even the one with oil looked more like floor sweepings- dry and dusty.
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