Honeychop Chopped Oat Straw – High Fibre Horse & Pony Feed 12.5KG

Honeychop Chopped Oat Straw – 12.5kg

This is straight oat straw, chopped, screened to take out the fine particles and dust-extracted, with nothing added at all. Honeychop use sun-dried straw from crops that have not been desiccated, and describe it as a pure natural product — no molasses, no alfalfa, no additives.

At 40% fibre, 2% protein and 5MJ/kg it is the lowest-energy feed Honeychop make, and the one they name as suitable for laminitic horses, ponies and donkeys. Non-structural carbohydrate is 2.2%, which is why it works as a partial hay replacer for a good doer that still needs something to chew on.

Performance & Benefits

• 100% oat straw and nothing else — no molasses, alfalfa or additives.
• Screened and dust-extracted, so the bag is clean to handle and clean to feed.
• 40% crude fibre, the highest in the Honeychop range.
• 5MJ/kg digestible energy and 2.2% NSC, about as low as a bagged chaff goes.
• Sun-dried straw from crops that have not been desiccated.
• Bulks out a small hard feed without adding calories.

Suitable For

• Horses, ponies and donkeys prone to laminitis — Honeychop name all three.
• Good doers, overweight animals and native breeds.
• Use as a partial hay replacer when forage is short.
• Horses with intolerances, given the single-ingredient composition.
• At 2% protein it supplies no useful protein, vitamins or minerals — if it makes up much of the diet, pair it with a balancer such as GWF Equilibra Feed Balancer.

Feeding

• Feed alone or mixed through a hard feed.
• Honeychop describe it as suitable for partial hay replacement. They publish no feeding rate, so none is stated here.
• Introduce gradually, and never replace all the forage at once.
• Fresh water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 100% oat straw.
• Analysis: fibre 40%, protein 2%, total sugar 1.6%, starch 0.1%, NSC 2.2%, digestible energy 5MJ/kg.
• Honeychop publish no oil or ash figure for this feed, so none is given here.
• Slightly different figures — protein 2.5%, sugar 2%, starch 0.2% and 6MJ/kg — have circulated on retail listings including our own; the figures above are Honeychop's.
• Supplied in a 12.5kg bag; Honeychop do not publish pack sizes.