Forage and bedding survey

[wlagricultural]

Hi everyone, i am a young farmer currently studying business at gcse level. I have been tasked with creating a business plan for a business we would like to create and equestrian forage and bedding is a business i would like to run after i leave school, or a number of years after. It would be great if you could give a couple of minutes to complete this brief survey so that i can use the information to create my final piece of work.
Many Thanks!
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9P88V66

 

[TPO]

Done!

Good luck with your assignment

 

[HappyHollyDays]

Done. Rather than do the survey twice as the horses are on different types of bedding I put comments in the others box. Hope it makes sense.

 

[nikicb]

Done.

 

[windand rain]

done

 

[Equi]

Done. I filled it in as my home yard but i also have one on livery who has the shavings/haylage provided so i technically don't take anything to do with the ordering.

 

[OrangeAndLemon]

Done but mine is on half & half hay and haylage (more haylage at the moment for extra weight in winter, and he eats it more slowly so it lasts longer).

Also bedding; I deep litter with pellets on the bottom and shavings on top but its more shavings than pellets.

 

[PapaverFollis]

Done. Good luck with your work.

 

[be positive]

Done but my ordering has changed dramatically this year, down from 8 or so to 2, so using standard bales of hay whereas previously I used big bales of haylage delivered each month along with straw bedding, now using probed, having one load of each last all winter will be a novelty for me.

 

[laura_nash]

Done, but my horse bedding comes in bags not bales (straw pellets) and I get a mix of conventional and round bales of hay (the round bales are shared between the horses and my small herd of cows). I answered conventional bales for both and put just the number of conventional bales for the hay.

 

[SussexbytheXmasTree]

I use wood pellets for bedding and after the question on bedding I gave up as the subsequent answers were not applicable. In addition I don’t know the difference between some of the bale types you mentioned for hay. We seem to have ones that don’t fit your descriptions.

 

[HashRouge]

Does "conventional square" refer to small bales? I thought it must do so put that.

 

[dogatemysalad]

Done. Good luck with your assignment.

 

[vmac66]

Done

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

Done.

 

[ponynutz]

Done x