Our comprehensive Mollichaff range offers a choice of
high quality chaffs to add bulk and fibre to your horse’s
diet, as well as a complete feed aimed at laminitics
and a complete forage replacer aimed at veterans.
Our specialist chaff range has five tasty options and
is made from top quality oat and wheat straws, alfalfa
and dried grass. It is dust-extracted, chopped and lightly
dressed with a unique low sugar coating, using a special
process that covers every part of the chaff evenly to
make it very palatable.
This gives our chaffs an open texture, unlike heavily
molassed chaffs which can be sticky and lumpy.
By stimulating the production of saliva and slowing
down the passage of food throughout the gut, Mollichaff
can help to promote good digestion. In particular it
will satisfy a stabled horse’s psychological need
to chew, requiring up to 8000 chews per kilo to eat
compared to as few as 1200 for concentrates.
The Mollichaff range also includes Mollichaff Veteran,
a high fibre forage mix which can be used as a total
forage replacer if necessary; and Mollichaff HoofKind,
which is a complete fibre feed designed for the nutritional
support of horses and ponies prone to laminitis.
Forget your shopping list of nuts,
alfalfa, chaff, oil, minerals and vitamins. A simple
diet of Mollichaff HoofKind – a complete feed
in a bag containing all these ingredients and antioxidants,
fed with High Fibre HorseHage or Timothy HorseHage,
supplies all the nutrient and fibre requirements of
horses and ponies in moderate to light work (hacking
or schooling 4-5 times a week), resting or laminitic.
The HoofKind symbol denotes the forage is low in sugar
and starch and is suitable for all horses and ponies
including laminitics. |
A complete fibre feed designed for the nutritional support
of horses and ponies prone to laminitis.
HoofKind is a highly palatable mix containing a balanced
blend of oat straw, alfalfa, fibre pellets, soya oil,
vitamins, minerals, trace elements and antioxidants.
HoofKind is low in starch and sugar, high in fibre and
does not contain any cereals.
HoofKind is low in protein and calories and provides
limited, controlled energy from high quality digestible
fibre and oil-based ingredients, making it an excellent
feed for ‘fizzy’ horses and good doers,
as well as laminitics.
HoofKind contains a broad spectrum vitamin and mineral
supplement, and when fed at the recommended levels to
horses at rest or in light work, HoofKind needs no further
supplementation other than good quality forage.
HoofKind contains added magnesium.
Magnesium is often deficient in UK soils and is an important
factor in the nutritional support of many metabolic
processes in the horse. Deficiency may be associated
with glucose intolerance and insulin resistance, both
of which are important in the nutritional management
of laminitis.
Additional natural plant-based antioxidants are also
included in HoofKind. Antioxidants help mop-up free
radicals and assist in the nutritional support of prevention
of damage to cells and cell membranes. The antioxidants
in HoofKind have been specially selected for the nutritional
maintenance of the immune system, the respiratory system,
the circulatory system and the all-important hooves
and laminae.
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FEEDING GUIDE
The following table is intended as a guide only. Good
quality forage should also be offered to complete the
diet. Remember that every horse is an individual and should
be treated accordingly.
| Approximate
Height (Hands) |
Approximate
Weight (kg) |
Quantity (kg)
of HoofKind per day |
| 11 – 12.2 |
200 |
1 |
| 12.2 – 13.2 |
300 |
1.5 |
| 13.2 – 14.2 |
400 |
2 |
| 15.2 – 16.2 |
500 |
2.5 |
| 16.2 – 17.2 |
600 |
3 |
• Always feed at least 1% of bodyweight in total
food per day, even to overweight horses and ponies.
• Clean, fresh water should be available at all
times
• Always weigh feedstuffs, particularly when feeding
overweight or laminitic horses and ponies.
• Feed dry or damp according to preference
• As with all new feedstuffs introduce gradually
and increase quantities as required. |
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