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    pistolpete replied to the thread No hay!.
    Exactly. I’m able to give him beet or grass nuts and he’ll manage fine. As long as he can pick about. I’ll happily give him two big...
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    pistolpete reacted to SEL's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    At least with a good doer you can wait and see if the others who are more desperate find stocks.
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    pistolpete replied to the thread No hay!.
    I don’t want or need to buy haylage. The others may choose to but going to be very awkward if they want to feed it and I don’t.
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    pistolpete replied to the thread No hay!.
    Nope. The local feed merchant has no info either. She’ll sell us the odd small bale but no deliveries and not keen on taking on new...
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    pistolpete reacted to Marshpiper's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    If you can get hold of a local farming paper, in Northern Ireland we have the Farm Week, you could find there are advertisements selling...
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    pistolpete reacted to ester's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    We don't have much (shared) storage but relieved that we have a long term supplier relationship who will deliver ad hoc and see us...
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    pistolpete reacted to meleeka's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    There is still hay available here (South Coast) but it's expensive. Our local feed shop is selling small bales at £9.50. My friend got...
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    pistolpete replied to the thread No hay!.
    For context there are four horses on seven acres. Yard owner is not a helpful person won’t allow any strip grazing etc. so no options of...
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    pistolpete reacted to dixie's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    Plenty of hay here (Devon). Buying small bales at £5.50 and round haylage at £50. Would hate to have short supply as it’sa fundamental...
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    pistolpete reacted to Surbie's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    The Marksway timothy horsehage and blue rye horsehage are meant to be ok for laminitics. Otherwise I would potentially look at borrowing...
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    pistolpete reacted to HappyHollyDays's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    Horsehage is often lower in sugar than hay so don’t discount it and if you can source large bales of haylage you won’t need under cover...
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    pistolpete reacted to canteron's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    Supplement expensive haylage with beet pulp, grass nuts and barley straw. If you talk to a feed company (Simple Systems?) they will...
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    pistolpete reacted to NiceChristmasBaubles's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    I can only store around six weeks worth (for three), but thankfully, although my hay is understandably costing a little more per bale...
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    pistolpete reacted to spotty_pony2's post in the thread No hay! with Like Like.
    Unfortunately some people don't have the storage to stock up that much (I am lucky to have a hay barn but not everybody is). I think...
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    pistolpete replied to the thread No hay!.
    We have no storage area sadly.
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