The breeder of my girls feeds Chaffhaye and they devour it like candy and the entire herd looks fabulous (about 30 goats total)! She also feeds it to her 2 horses and 2 miniature cows...
The breeder uses one package every 3-4 days or so and according to her she was actually able to save a bit of $ on her grain bill by switching over.... She of course has many animals who she feeds this to, so she doesn't have to worry about spoilage and such.... But I was curious if anyone with smaller numbers feed Chaffhaye, and if so how do you store it and how long does it keep??
I would LOVE to continue using her feeding program but since I'll only have 2 mini goats I worried about storage issues so I wrote to the company about more economical, smaller packages than the 50lb "bales" to make it easier for people with small stock numbers to safely use their product and here's the reply I got (fairly fast reply at that, I was impressed):
" We will be producing in smaller package (probably the 25 lbs.) for next season.- Since Chaffhaye is made from fresh forage we can not implement changes that quickly.- Since we are just about at the end of our season, we won't have fresh product available for the smaller package until the next growing season.- Again, thanks for your input. Please be looking for the smaller packages.
Steve Rader Chaffhaye, Inc.(575) 640-7673
www.chaffhaye.com"
We *generally* don't have high humidity on a regular basis but I still worry about 50 lbs of chaffhaye going bad before I could use it. Were going to buy 1 bale of it after we get the girls simply to keep them on what they had prior for their first bit here and were going to try storing it in an airtight container to see what kind of storage we could get...though our plans are to use a grain mix along with free choice alfalfa pellets/hay until different packaging on Chaffhaye is available....But I thought I'd share the email just in case there are some Chaffhaye feeders here who may be interested in smaller bales in the future.
Best Wishes,
Crystal
