Thunderbrook Healthy Herbal Chaff 15kg – Linseed Coated Chaff for Horses & Ponies

Thunderbrook Healthy Herbal Chaff – 15kg

Healthy Herbal Chaff is dried British meadow grass, chopped, with a light coating of linseed oil and dried chamomile, lemon balm and mint through it. It is the chaff most Thunderbrook feeders build a bucket on — soft enough for a horse with poor teeth, and slow enough to stop a greedy one bolting a balancer down in seconds.

The free-from list is long and it is the reason people buy it: no molasses, no alfalfa, no cereals, no straw, no soya, no wheat, no preservatives, no artificial additives and no GM ingredients. Sugar sits at 4–9% and starch under 2%, with 28% crude fibre at 9.4 MJ/kg.

Performance & Benefits

• Dehydrated British meadow grass, chopped, with a light linseed oil coat.
• Chamomile flowers and leaves, lemon balm and mint dried into the mix.
• No molasses, alfalfa, cereals, straw, soya, wheat, preservatives, artificial additives or GM ingredients.
• Starch under 2% and sugar 4–9% on Thunderbrook's own analysis.
• 28% crude fibre at 9.4 MJ/kg — genuinely a fibre feed rather than chopped filler.
• Slows a horse down, which is the whole point when a balancer is mixed into it.

Suitable For

• Mixing with Thunderbrook Synergy or Daily Essentials to slow eating and carry the supplement.
• Veterans, youngstock and horses with poor teeth.
• Horses with metabolic sensitivities that need low sugar and starch.
• Fussy eaters — the chamomile, lemon balm and mint do most of the persuading.
• Not a forage replacement. At these feeding rates it is a carrier, and the horse still needs its hay or grazing.

Feeding

• Pony around 200kg: 150–300g a day.
• Cob around 400kg: 200–500g a day.
• Horse around 600kg: 300–600g a day.
• Feed dampened.
• Introduce gradually, and keep fresh water available at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: dehydrated grass, linseed oil, dried chamomile flowers and leaves, dried lemon balm, dried mint leaves.
• Thunderbrook's analysis: crude protein 9.1%, crude fat 3.6%, crude fibre 28%, crude ash 6.5%, sodium 1%, DE 9.4 MJ/kg.
• Sugar 4–9% and starch under 2%, given as ranges because the grass is cut from over 2,000 acres of British meadow and varies with cut, weather and field.
• Free from molasses, alfalfa, cereals, straw, soya, wheat, preservatives, artificial additives and GM ingredients.
• 15kg bag.