Since we started using Chaffhaye over a year ago, we have seen 100% consumption and our deer look healthier than ever. In addition, our 1 & 2 year old bucks are the best we have ever grown. Here is a picture of a 2 year old buck we grew on Chaffhaye.

I have an 1100 acre ranch in Texas. I currently have around 60 deer in my breeding operation that was started in 2006. We have experimented with several roughage-based products to try and increase our deer’s intake and to help them break down and absorb the protein pellets more efficiently, but we have not found anything that met our requirements…...until now. We have tried fresh alfalfa hay, alfalfa based pellets, cubes, extruded pellets, etc, etc. None of these products lasted very long in storage and the deer did not consume large quantities of them, they would simply nibble around on it. It must taste the way it looks, like dried grass or cubes? Until now, we stuck with the fresh alfalfa hay as the product of choice, although we were not satisfied with the results. The hay was always eaten as soon as we would throw it in the pens, although they would not touch the stems but rather pick off the leaves. Obviously, the stems are the bulk of the weight purchased and the economics are clearly not there. As for the rest of the products, the deer simply do not like them.

After talking with you about Chaffhaye, I decided to initially purchase a couple tons of the products. It has been the best feed product we have purchased to date. The deer love it and it stores better than anything else on the market. There is no waste by the deer and even better, the raccoons will not eat it. We have noticed a significant increase in antler size and overall healthier looking deer. We feed the hay heavily to our bucks during the antler growing season and to our fawning does. We feel that the hay helps the bucks to absorb more nutrients in the extruded pellets that we feed daily, not including the benefits of the Chaffhaye. As for the fawning does, we cannot feed them enough of the hay! They really crave it during this time period and it obviously has the same great benefits to them as the bucks. It also has a positive effect on the fawns because we feel that a healthier doe equals a healthier fawn. We do not bottle feed very many of our fawns, so the does must be in good condition to produce enough milk for twins and very regularly triplets. Chaffhaye has made our operation much more successful.

Thanks Chaffhaye!

My Parents have about 900 acres in the Texas Hill Country. For years we have tried to supplement feed our whitetail with little or no luck. Over the past five years we have tried various protein pellets and planted several food plots that never seemed to grow because the rains did not come at the right times to achieve a successful amount of growth to sustain our deer population.

The deer seemed to like the protein, but as we quickly learned the deer wasted more protein than they actually consumed because of the inefficiency of protein feeders to dispense protein. We also became aware that we were feeding as many raccoons as we were deer. Since we were supplemental feeding that many raccoons we could not justify the cost of protein to increase our overall trophy quality of our deer herd. This is until we discovered Chaffhaye.

Chaffhaye is the best supplemental food source for out deer herd period. Our bucks have shown a significant increase in antler and body size. In the past two years we have shot some of the biggest bucks we have ever seen on our ranch. The unique thing about Chaffhaye is that raccoons do not eat it and deer end up consuming ever bit of the product. This means that waste is pretty much
eliminated thus making this a more reliable and cost efficient supplemental food source. I have witnessed on several occasions, that deer will actually pass up corn in order to consume Chaffhaye. This is amazing because before Chaffhaye deer would actually pass up protein pellets to eat corn. An additional benefit we have experienced is an increase in fawn survival. We believe the benefits of Chaffhaye have helped our doe population become healthier thus improving the fawn survival rate during the spring, when fawns are born, due to a better quality milk supply by the mother doe.

I have attached a couple of photos of some cull bucks that we have taken in the past two seasons. Even though these are cull bucks you can see the overall benefits of using Chaffhaye. If our cull deer look this good you can only imagine what my trophy deer look like!

I would like to thank you for your product –Chaffhaye. Your product works! When I started feeding the Chaffhaye to my Whitetail deer, it only took the consumption of half of a beer for them to take to it. The most obvious thing that I have seen is in the amount of what I am feeding (350 lbs. per week) of the Chaffhaye. Being total consumed. I have designed a feed trough that holds 7 of your bales. When I return in 7 to 8 days the trough is completely bare. I know that it is only the deer that are eating the Chaffhaye since I have a Smart Scouter Camera pointed at the trough 24/7 in a fenced in pen.

I have learned a lot about Chaffhaye from reading your website. I read with the moisture rate of 50% and the tickling effect of the stomach wall caused by the roughage (stems and pieces) is what allows for a higher absorption rate. Now I understand the white spots I see are yeast cultures which are a pro-biotic. This is a natural process from the fermentation and is a good thing for my deer.
Also I now know that the fermentation process creates a pre-digested state which also aids the higher absorption rate. I believe, through my experience with feeding your product, that this is all very true. I have seen a drastic reduction in the amount of manure inside the deer pens versus what I had when I used the corn and protein pellet mix along with the baled alfalfa last year. This confirms that your product is being absorbed at a much higher rate in their digestive systems because of it being fermented. I am not necessarily feeding more pounds of Chaffhaye than what I was feeding in baled alfalfa, it is just very obvious that they are eating all of the Chaffhaye and not leaving any of it on the ground like they did with the stems in the baled alfalfa.
When my friends ask me about how I grow such big bucks I tell them about my experience feeding Chaffhaye, and that nutrition is the most important thing for antler development and then next is genetics & age. They need to be feeding them Chaffhaye free choice so that they can benefit from the genetics that they have already paid for. In short, I tell them that deer need Alfalfa with as high as a protein level as they can get, because for deer to reach a mature age – 5 years, they have to be healthy in order to grow. Deer need the 19% protein that your product offers as well as the great scent that they find irresistible to eat. I believe Chaffhaye attracts deer to my property and gives them the feed value that they need in order for them to meet their full growth potential.

I want to thank the producers of Chaffhaye for manufacturing and developing a truly great product. We have been feeding the product since October of 2009 with great results. Our deer consume the product well and enjoy the taste. The consistency of the Chaffhaye is what impressed me most as well as the convenience of a vacuum packed bag. Big thanks again to everyone at Chaffhaye! Thank you,