For those with 3 horses - how much hay are you using?

3 ponies that eat hay - all doing v well on 1/3 of a small bale twice a day for all three. Two of them have actually managed to get fat so are having their hard feed (speedibeet + chaff) cut down! Do keep them all toasty warm though as would rather rug than spend money on feed/hay!
 
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zoon said:
Just curious how much everyone is using. I have a weanling, a 2 year old and a veteran and use one large bale per week at the moment in the snow as they are out 24/7.
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i have the same, 8 month old 18 month old, and a rising 18 yr old but i had grass rested untill 2 weeks ago so they arent really interested in hay at the mo, although have a little munch. i fill up 3 empty feed sacks of hay a day and not all of it goes and they are out 24/7
 
Yikes.

We have four: 16.3hh DWB; 16.0hh TBxID; 13.3hh Trad cob; 13hh Welsh x.

All out 24/7.

A 6'x3'x3' bale of late cut semi-haylage is lasting four days.

We opened the next one, spread it out into six piles. Blasted neds went and opened one of the wrapped ones! Can't get poles into the ground to fence them off. Oiks. We don't put haynets up because they are an argumentative lot (still sorting themselves out) and it will end badly.

They have sugarbeet (half scoop) plus vits and salt. Dizz has Equijewel as well, and LC has Shape Up for the natural Selenium and vit E.

At £30 per bale, it's going to be an expensive winter! There is grass, but it's still under x inches of snow :(
 
I have 4, a 17hh middleweight hunter, 14hh veteran pony, 15.3hh TB who has a 6 month old foal at foot (TBxWB). They go out at about 7.30am and come in about 4pm and all are fed hard feed (either a conditioning, veteran or mare and foal mix) with Alfa A oil and sugar beet and top spec balancer (other than the foal although he tries to get his gannet head in mum's food) and all are rugged.

We usually use big bale haylage but the farmer has not been able to bring it due to the snow so have managed to get some large round bale hay for £30 a bale and we are going through that at the rate of about a bale a week with hay in numerous piles in the field to stop fights and pretty much ad lib in the stable.

Usually they don't manage to get through all their hay in their stable or field, there is usually a bit left in the morning but this last week they are eating it almost as fast as I can put it in! Bit sick of the weather now it was just sooo cold this morning!
 
I have 5, 1 x 17hh ISH, 2 x 16.2hh ISH, 1 x 15.2hh Connie cross and 1 x ID x TB 2 yo and they go through a large bale every seven days atm.
They are in all the time, some days 4 of them go out for a few hrs depending on the frost/snow/ice!
Doesn't work out too bad, approx 65pence per day per horse :)
They all get hard feed twice a day, mostly hi fi and supplements for the 2 x 16.2hh and the Connie, just Topspec for 2 yo as she gets choke otherwise and 17hh is just on conditioning cubes and supplements as he has just had a wind op :(
 
16hh ISH and 15hh conniextb live out 24/7 365 are on ad lib hay - they get through about 1 small bale - plus a couple of extra wods a day - so i'd say 1.25small bales a day - they are both also fed a scoop of fast fibre and a scoop of chaff twice a day
 
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