Lowe Farms has been producing premium quality hay and straw since 1865. We are a 7th generation family farm 70km north of Adelaide, with our own fodder shop on-site.
We also make and sell high-quality oaten, wheaten, meadow and lucerne chaff. Horses and ponies across South Australia love our chaff (especially our unique Fat Pony blend) but it’s also ideal for other farm and domestic animals. Our chaff is long-cut and dust-reduced, with a quality and consistency that’s second-to-none.
Why Choose Lowe Farms
All our products are grown on the Adelaide Plains, an area known to produce the best hay in Australia due to quicker ripening with less potential of weather damage or retained moisture. We also work with an innovative farm near us to supply all lucerne, so we have complete control over the quality and testing of our fodder.
Horses and ponies across South Australia love our chaff, but it’s also ideal for other farm and domestic animals including cattle, donkeys, goats, sheep, alpacas, rabbits and guinea pigs. Plus, many of our chaff products are available in 15kg vacuum sealed plastic bags rather than 25kg, so the chaff is fresher, easier to move and easier to store.
Highest quality
The cleanest hay and chaff, thanks to good paddock management, no GMOs, no additives or preservatives and everything being made by hand
Healthier chaff
Long-cut chaff requires more chewing and is therefore better for the gut health of animals, especially horses. Our low sugar chaff can help reduce and prevent the occurrence of dental decay in horses.
Traceability
We know which paddock every product is from and when it was sown, cut and baled.
Transparency
We can guarantee the quality of our products thanks to fodder analysis and nutritional testing done at baling. We test every variety, every paddock, every year.
Highest quality
The cleanest hay and chaff, thanks to good paddock management, no GMOs, no additives or preservatives and everything being made by hand
Healthier chaff
Long-cut chaff requires more chewing and is therefore better for the gut health of animals, especially horses. Our low sugar chaff can help reduce and prevent the occurrence of dental decay in horses.
Traceability
We know which paddock every product is from and when it was sown, cut and baled.
Transparency
We can guarantee the quality of our products thanks to fodder analysis and nutritional testing done at baling. We test every variety, every paddock, every year.
Minimal Dust
All our chaff is triple-sieved, and dust extracted, meaning more goodness in every bag.
Greater nutrients
Our blended products have a higher proportion of lucerne – using a 50/50 ratio, giving higher levels of protein and digestible fibre, and greater value to you.
Lighter bags
Smaller 15kg bags are the same cost per kilo as larger bags, keep the contents fresher for longer, and are easier to store, move and transport
Environmental bags
Our recyclable, vacuum-sealed plastic bags are better for the environment, more resistant to mice and allow you to see the quality
No additives
No molasses or oil is ever added to our chaff.
Minimal Dust
All our chaff is triple-sieved, and dust extracted, meaning more goodness in every bag.
Greater nutrients
Our blended products have a higher proportion of lucerne – using a 50/50 ratio, giving higher levels of protein and digestible fibre, and greater value to you.
Lighter bags
Smaller 15kg bags are the same cost per kilo as larger bags, keep the contents fresher for longer, and are easier to store, move and transport
Environmental bags
Our recyclable, vacuum-sealed plastic bags are better for the environment, more resistant to mice and allow you to see the quality
No additives
No molasses or oil is ever added to our chaff.
”It's bloody good feed.
Katie Clark
”The Role of Chaff in Horse Feeds
Chaff provides only a small amount of nutrient in a horse’s total intake independent of whether it is lucerne, oaten or wheaten chaff. Its addition to hard or concentrate feeds is, however, important, both from a palatability influence and because it slows down the rate at which a horse eats its hard feed. This means more chewing and stimulation of saliva over a longer period. This is a most important role as the more saliva produced, the better the digestive function. The more saliva, the less chance of gastric upsets from digestive causes. A secondary impact of longer feeding time is a psychological influence on the horse’s well-being.
The type of chaff dramatically influences the chewing process. Short-cut chaff only increases the time taken to eat a hard feed because of the extra bulk. It hardly gets chewed. Long- cut chaff means the horse actually chews the chaff as well as the hard feed, meaning a much longer eating time and therefore a much larger output of saliva.
The other impact of long-cut chaff is that even after chewing the chaff segments are of uneven length when swallowed. This then influences gut function as the fibre moves through the gut. Uneven lengths bounce from side to side of the gut wall stimulating contraction, whereas similarly sized short pieces of fibre provide little stimulation.
For these reasons, I recommend the use of long-cut chaff in hard feeds, especially when totally dry feed is offered.
Dr Andrew R Hunt, BVMS, B. Sc, B. Rur.Sc(Hons)
Morphettville Equine Veterinary Clinic
