Cheapest meadow hay or haylage

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My mare has had extensive grade 3 squamous and glandular ulcers this year, treated now but going forwards I obv need her to eat her hay/haylage. The yard stuff is so variable some is lovely some isn’t and she won’t eat it. I have tried baillie meadow haylage which she l9ves but their 20kg bags are £7 bag and she 600kg.
‘I have hunted around locally and got 30 bales of meadow hay another l8very has and hers was lovely but my load from same place wasn’t like hers and while my mare has eaten most I’ve still had to feed 3-4 bales to other horses. I got some from a local farmer lively hay/haylage but she wouldn’t touch it.
so what options are there for decent meadow hay or haylage. At £7 a bale it’s going to cost me a fortune to feed baillie as she needs it inside and out in field due to no grass in winter.

 

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It is tricky when they are fussy, she needs about 1/2 a bale of haylage in 24 hours so I would give her that at night in the stable along with a net of hay so she has choices and put just hay in the field so if she is hungry she has the option of eating it, using haylage will be cheaper than having to treat ulcers again and prevent too much wastage if she doesn't want the hay you can provide, top her up with a good grass chaff or even some decent straw she can nibble on if she wants.
Keeping her happy will be part of the prevention as much as keeping her tummy full, so maybe look around to see if there is a better livery option where they do have grass in winter, mine are not yet needing hay in the fields as we have plenty of grass and it is still growing.