Purchase Your Winter Supply of Hay
- Posted by Alayne Blickle
- Topics: Blogs, Smart Horse Keeping
If you haven’t already done so, fall is the time to buy your winter supply of hay. Be sure to look for green, leafy, fresh-smelling hay without mold, weeds, dust or discoloration. Recent nutritional recommendations are for a horse to receive 2% of its body weight in hay (or forage) per day. For the “average” 1000 lb. horse with moderate exercise that will be about 20 pounds of hay per day. This is about 600 lbs. of hay per month. Since hay is usually sold in bulk by the ton (2,000 lbs), one ton of hay will last about 3 and 1/3 months per average-sized horse. Do the math to determine how many tons of hay you’ll need for the coming winter.
A budget saving tip is to buy in bulk which is always cheaper than buying in smaller quantities. If you don’t have the room for storing that volume of hay, perhaps a horsey neighbor might. Two (or more) of you could go in on the purchase of the hay and reduce the cost for all
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Alayne Blickle
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