COST OF HAY!!!!

[druid]

We pay €4/£2.70 for organic hay..and that's plus a storage bay in a barn for it!!

KJJ, once haylage is opened it should be used within 5-7 days...

 

[loopeepee]

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Local to me... trouble is they charge the earth to deliver to our yard... no-one else has hay so it's just me!!

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Ohhh - fair do's. I know most of our yard are haylege, but the yard makes it so its fine for them.

 

[Sooty]

£2.25 for really nice hay with no ragwort (I am very neurotic!), or £2.35 delivered.

 

[Salcey]

I'm with Elliebeast *hiding behind chair* its £1.85a bale and its nice

 

[Farm Kat]

I pay £2-2.50 a bale stored, or £1-1.50 off the field. Round bale hay

£8-16, depends who you know, and if he's about.

 

[crackerjack]

£3.50 when first cut £4 when supplies are running low!

 

[sevenoceans]

YO's Grown hay is £3.00 and is good stuff! thats the cheapest i ever paid for my hay in my life time!!! also Straw is 80p so can't complain...

 

[Ash the arab]

Blimey!!
We pay £2.50 (delivered), although Ash is on big bale haylage - £25 a time!

 

[Forget_Me_Not]

I get it straight from the farmer at £2.75 with free delivery, its really nice much nicer then what i got last year for my mare at £4 a bale!

Wont the haylage bale go off by the time your using/finishing it weeks later??

GUYS DONT PAY MORE THEN £3.00!! THIS YEAR THE HAY IS GOOD SO SHOULD BE CHEAP.

 

[Happytohack]

£2.50 for best quality hay made right next to the sea here in East Anglia. The horses love it (and they are a really fussy lot) and much prefer it to haylage. And they are really heavy bales as well.

 

[Theresa_F]

£2 a bale direct from the farmer, we get 80 bales at a time between us. Very nice hay.

I have paid up to £4 in the past. Mine eat at least a bale a day between them, and when cold Cairo will eat 3/4s of a bale by himself.

 

[rema]

God thats abit steep.We pay £2.00 for a square bale delivered.

 

[Seahorse]

My god that is expensive Kim!

I pay £10 a week for ad lib hay and straw so I don't know how much that would work out as its from a big round bale. I give Axey loads of hay and don't give him very much hard feed at all!

 

[spooks]

sarah WHERE are u getting hay for £1.80 in east anglia ??? <runs out to start lorry up! >

 

[moon_drop]

We are £12 a big bale that includes delivery. We get four bales at a time. That normal lasts us around 5 weeks in the winter for four horses. Its really good hay. We are in the north east of scotland.

 

[Patches]

blimey!

I bought 500 bales off the field at £1 a bale, good stuff too. I can't imagine paying that much per bale.

 

[lilpete]

We have to buy our hay from the farmer that owns our livery yard, I pay £2.50 a bale. Its very good hay.

 

[Faithkat]

The hay quality might be good but there's only half as much as normal (well, round here anyway as there was only one cut) so with only half the normal amount available, it is bound to be more expensive. The same thing happened about 11 years ago and I can remember paying between £5 and £7 a bale back then, it was horrendous and there was not a bale to be had by January, I was feeding Mollichaff and Alfa-A to my youngster.

 

[jewel]

£1.50 a bale for sweet meadow hay here. £15 big bale haylage and thats delivered

 

[JadeWisc]

The average here is between $2.50 and $3.00 (for good haorse hay) Nasty hay can go much cheaper, but who wants it? The man with the best hay around me however charges $4 (but his bales are slightly larger ,ALWAYS perfect and to be trusted)

 

[SirenaXVI]

I pay £3.50 - but it is very nice hay and the only hay the sexy 2yo will eat dammit

 

[MagicMelon]

I pay £1.50 a square bale of decent hay.

 

[Pidge]

I'm paying £2/bale from a friend and between me and sis we have ordered 360 to see us through till next summer. £3/bale from feed place though!

 

[clipertyplop]

i have hayledge £18 per bale delivered which lasts 2 cobs adlib for a week i only feed hard feed when ridden same price as last year, but the producers had a smaller crop this year so might get a bit scarce

 

[patchandloopy]

We pay £2.25 from our farmer, good quality stuff and deleiverd too- or could pay £3.50 for cr@p stuff from feed merchant-undelivered!!

 

[_jetset_]

When Han was on hay it was £4 a bale!

Was absolutely gorgeous quality but I just couldn't afford to keep her on it!

 

[Evadiva1514]

I pay £20 for a big round bale, feeds 4 of mine (as the other 2 are on haylage) just under a week.

 

[vivhewe]

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I get it free

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Me too!

*Runs and hides in a big pile of hay bales* Cough Sorry, not bales, then

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

I buy mine in from a smallholder, beautiful meadow hay @ £2.00 a bail. Our YO charges £3.25 a bail, but he's got to make a living.

 

[the watcher]

In some areas it has gone up hugely because either there was only one cut, ot due to lack of rain the cuts taken were much reduced.

I did put up a warning after the first cut that hay would be at a premium this winter in some areas..and got shot down in flames for it

This was one of the factors I took into consideration when moving to a yard where hay is included in the deal at no extra charge