Description
Everyday Molassed Chaff is a high quality, dust extracted, soft straw feed with a molasses coating and tasty aniseed spice flavouring.
By adding Dengie Everyday Molassed Chaff to your horse’s bucket feed it will increase chew time, helping your horse to digest and utilise their feed more efficiently.
Key Features
- Soft and easy to chew; can be fed as a partial hay replacer
- Slows the rate of eating, helping to prevent greedy horses bolting their feed
- Sweet taste tempts fussy eaters and is useful for hiding unpalatable medication
How To Get The Most Out Of Feeding With Dengie Everyday Molassed Chaff
Everyday Molassed Chaff is a straight feed. It should be fed alongside an additional source of vitamins and minerals at the recommended quantity in the form of a supplement, balancer or mixes and cubes to provide a balanced diet. Dengie Everyday Molassed Chaff can be fed dry or dampened.
How much to feed?
| Horse or Pony | Size Guide (hh) | Approx Weight (kg) | Bucket Feed (kg/day) |
| Small Pony | 9-13 | 200 | 500g or 2 scoops |
| Large Pony | 13.1-14.2 | 300 | 750g or 3 scoops |
| Small Horse | 14.3-15.2 | 400 | 1.0kg or 4 scoops |
| Medium Horse | 15.3-16.2 | 500 | 1.25kg or 5 scoops |
| Large Horse | 16.3+ | 600 | 1.5kg or 6 scoops |
How Hard Are You Working Your Horse?
The amount and kind of work your horse or pony is doing is an important factor when calculating the quantity and type of feed to give.
| Work load | Example |
| Convalescence/Resting | Horses on box rest, or turned away. |
| Light work | Maximum of 1 hour per day hacking, mostly at walk with some trotting and cantering, or 30 minutes of schooling, mostly at the trot with some canter. |
| Medium work | Schooling, dressage, show-jumping, novice or intermediate 1 day eventing or hunting 1 day per week. |
| Hard Work | Advanced one day events. 3 day events, hunting 2 days per week, polo and all forms of racing. |
Analytical Constituents
Typical analysis (%) ‘as fed’
| Digestible Energy | 8.5MJ/kg |
| Protein | 5 |
| Oil | 1 |
| Fibre | 23 |
| Sugar | 15 |
| Starch | 1.5 |
Composition
Straw, molasses
The visual appearance of the actual product may vary due to environmental conditions during growth and time of harvest.
Returns
In Store & Delivery
In Store (Try On)
Not all items are currently stocked in our Taunton Store. Please call or email us before your visit, so we can request the items from our warehouse, if in stock.
In Store Collection
Local to us? You can also arrange to collect your items. Once you've placed your order, you will be emailed when we have the item(s) ready for collection.
Delivery Services are selected at the Checkout.
Standard Delivery via Parcelforce
Please allow approximately 2-3 working days for dispatch and 2 working days for delivery (total 5 working days). For full details please visit our delivery information page.
In Store Collection
Local to us? You can also arrange to collect your items. Once you've placed your order, you will be emailed when we have the item(s) ready for collection. Delivery Services are selected at the Checkout.
Product Features
- Feed Type: Chaff
- Feed Weight: 12.5kg
- Weight: 20000g
