Dengie feeds

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Just bought Dengie Hi Fi Lite, have the ingredients changed? It feels so sticky I had the check the feed contents.
I don't recall it being like this before, lami approved but this amount of sugar coating, surely not?
Someone has Happy Hoof and that looked worse hence this purchase.

Pbf-hoping your see this and ad input as well as other peeps.
 
I used to use but now use the hi fi lite molasses free as I too had noticed the difference,I tried the happy hoof thought the same a lot of sugar coating.
The molasses free is much better imo and no stickiness at all.
 
I have given up on the HiFi lite, Happy Hoof and Healthy Hooves - they are all too sticky for my liking - now on Dodson & Horrell Safe & Sound - non sticky and very herby, she loves it.
 
I am so fed up of commercial feeds I really am!

It's the horse equivalent of the ready meals for us that have all sorts bundled in that have been in media.

What is so hard about a straight forward feed that a horse is designed to eat? Cereal free, fibre based, with oil for slow release energy for condition if required.

Fed up of

"Molasses free"... And "moglo" listed - a derivative of mollases...

"Nutritionally enhanced" - but no explanation of what this is

"Suitable for laminitics "- when clearly they pay for this branding and there are at better feeds available


They seem to throw junk in the feeds for no apparent reason - like putting fennel in a mollases free food... Fennel stimulates appetite, probably the last thing you want to do if you are feeding a low calorie diet!!!!

As is the need for a mixer - I use plain hay chop - no oil no gloop - and I have a pony with a dust allergy and have no problems! Big feed companies seem to think they need a binder for the chop - I think it makes it cheaper to produce as it adds weight the product so less chop.

Grumble grumble... In very tired and can wait to get in my bed!!!!

As for feeds, I would stick with

Fast fibre

Halleys chop (I like the hay one with no alfalfa as it makes pony crazy as does mollases!)

Top chop

Hifi mollases free (though it has added junk)

Mollichop mollasses free (again added junk but always a nicer quality mix and less sticky

Or something like grass nuts or speedi beet - though obv each of those have their own issues too
 
I've used Hi-Fi Lite for ages but have to say that I'm also looking for an alternative now, the quality has noticeably gone downhill and is much stickier than it ever used to be!

Interesting to hear all the other feeds that people use.
 
I like easyrider as it's molasses and alfalfa free but i have to order it in.

I have been using graze on over the winter but there is no more supply until later in the year so i need to look for an alternative.

Top Chop contains alfalfa which i don't want.
 
bitsnpieces said:
I've used Hi-Fi Lite for ages but have to say that I'm also looking for an alternative now, the quality has noticeably gone downhill and is much stickier than it ever used to be!

Interesting to hear all the other feeds that people use.
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So it has been altered. I put my hand in and honestly thought had bought the wrong feed.
The fact they have to offer molasses free is worrying in itself.

Up until now she has been on a sniff of calm and condition purely to pop the supplement into. I have used fast fibre and would use in the winter months but the store had run out.


The ingredients say less sugar than hay, I wonder how true that is. Most people I know soak it.
 
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I'm not so fussed about the molasses in Joy's Dengie Good Doer as she only get a Stubbs scoop, which equates to 400g, to bung her vits in. I chose it because its the lowest in digestable energy of any chop type feed and she prefers it to hifi lite anyway.

If I were feeding the quantites recommended because she needed the energy or fibre then I'd swop away to something molasses free too.
 
I second OBC, I use grass nuts and have done for nearly 2 years with Tobes. Simple Systems and they are the lower value summer grass nuts.

Nothing added - just grass!
 
She doesn't get a Stubbs scoop as just introducing it gradually.

Simple system would be OK if they stocked it at my local store, I stopped because they deliver and didn't know ever know when.
 
Fed dengie going up 22 years now. No complaints. Always had hi fi (before the invention of hi fi lite and there were only 2 choices!), use hi fi lite these days. Can't say i've noticed any difference at all. But i don't have horses that are particularly sensitive to additives. Having a horse that has an iffy tummy though, i'd probably drop myself into worse trouble changing his diet so we are sticking with for the time being.
 
Jane&Ziggy said:
The Halleys Timothy Hay chop is very nice, just that, timothy hay chopped up short. The boys like it.
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It's gone up since I bought it, but I second this. My two also munch quite happily. £14 per bag and you have to order two bags - but free delivery to door :) I'm about 1/4 way through second bag and I think I ordered it two years ago!!!!!!! Not gone off either!!! So much more chaff in the bag because there are no binders
 
My horse hates Happy Hoof, won't eat it, and he's a Cob.. alfa oil and pony nuts is all he gets now, and even then it's just a handful.
 
I only feed gelding as poor doer and feed the mare so she will eat her herbs for her arthritis :wink:
 
Surprised she ate it as doesn't really do chop. But its purely to mix with the supplements.
 
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