Hay large bales size of a slice?

[willhegofirst]

The new yard I am moving to sells hay by the slice of a rectangular large bale, how much of a small bale is this equivalant to do you think. I know this is a bit like saying how long is a bit of string, but ideas please.

 

[Nailed]

How much they charging a slice and Itll give more indication if it about right?

Lou x

 

[miss_c]

I would say that our slices of rectangular hay bales are about 4ish slices of a regular bale?

 

[willhegofirst]

£2 a slice

 

[Snowysadude]

I would say one rectangular peice is 3/4 slices of a normal bale (depending on thickness of slices of course!)

 

[Nailed]

tell em to sod off!

Lou x

 

[Snowysadude]

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tell em to sod off!

Lou x

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Second that one!

 

[Nari]

Depends on the bale. Some of mine come off in very thin slices that I'd guess are at most a slice & a half of a normal bale, but other bales are thick slices that are at least two normal slices.

 

[Nari]

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£2 a slice

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That's a rip off! I'd either get hay in from elsewhere of claim horse needs haylage that I'd buy in.

 

[willhegofirst]

Bit difficult, to tell them to sod off, you have to have their hay, I am paying £4 a bale for a small bale at the mo, they are good size bales tho, he gets 3 good slices a night, about 12lbs looks like this is going to cost somewhat more!!

 

[Nailed]

I never got this 'you must buy our hay' how can anyone make you feed your horse forage you dont want to feed it.. that YO overstepping the mark.. especially when they are charging on top of livery for it.. and abox the odds!

Lou x

 

[mon]

Probably to do with weed control dont want to omport thistles nettles or ragwort,if you know rules when moving to yard whAT IS PROBLEM

 

[Nailed]

Well personally i wouldn't move to a yard that did that.. probably for more money..
Its not in the interests of my horse or myself to have no control over my horses quality of forage.

Lou x

 

[willhegofirst]

Mon I didn't say its as a problem, I haven't delt with large bales before, so was enquireing about the size of a slice, i'm not on the yard yet so don't really know how big their slices come off as, or what the other liveries think about it. How many small bales whould make a large one?
They do make their on hay.

 

[stroppymare153]

hmmm.... or more to do with fobbing any old cr@p off on a captive market!!

my (slightly plump) 17+hh warmblood (normally) goes out in the (bald-ish) field during the day and has a full slice of big bale haylage at night. £2 a slice is a lot though!

 

[guisbrogal]

I pay £22.50 per large square bale of haylage and I get approx 45 nets out of it (22 days) so I work that out to be 50p a net. I get about 2 - 3 nets per slice therefore approx £1.50 a slice.

Definitely no more than that though, I would say I definitely don't get more than 45 nets.

I agree I hate yards that dictate you have to have their hay/haylage....I want to feed my 'pet' what I want to feed it and however much I want to feed it. Not what you say I can have.

 

[charliesarmy]

I think it is a strange one charging per slice surely these slices vary as they do with small bale...are you sure it isnt done on a weight of hay??

 

[mon]

wasn't getting at you but there are usually reasons for rules and liverys cant complain aslong as they know before they go there

 

[luckilotti]

just thought i would add as i am a YO and liveries have to buy their hay/haylage off us - why..........

- storage space - or lack of! sertainly not enough space for everyone to have 10 bales of hay/straw each.

- many are one horse owners - so wouldnt use a bale of haylage alone quick enough

- our get freshly unwrapped bales a lot - not stuff thats been sat open a week or anything like that

- people pay a set price per week for haylage, based on if its a horse or pony, and thats for 2 nets a day - and NO, we are not like other yards that weight it etc - its based upon trust that they dont take advantage

- there is still a choice - we have 2 haylage types (corse and softer type), 2 types of hay (ones softer which a certain horse prefers - we buy it in specially as that horse likes it!) other years if there has been demand, we have got in large round bales of hay also so liveries can mix and match as desired.

- people if they get a bale they are not happy with, change it for another - some of the bales we have taken backover the years there has been nothing wrong with and i have happily used for my own. Most feed shops/farmers would have laughed in their faces if they tried to return it.

- for bedding, they have a choice of cushion bed, shavings, wheat OR barley straw - we dont dictate what they have to use.

- security - we dont want lots of people/deliveries coming on and off the yard.


i could prob write more if i had time lol!

i just wanted to highlight that not every yard owner who sells supplies to their liveries if just doing it to make extra money!


I've never used large square bales of hay hence cannot comment on size but £2 sounds a lot per slice???

 

[willhegofirst]

I think luckilotti, points are fair and storage space is not large at this yard. The yard does not have spaces very often, someone is moving out of the area which is why there is a vacancy, so liveries seem to be happy there. There is also an honesty system in place, you sign for hay and bedding as you take it, hopefully the hay isn't going to work out as expensive as it would appear from what you have all said.
The yard has a lot of plus points as far as I am concerned, if this is the only downside I guess I may well have to bite the bullet, don't want to make waves as soon as I get there.

 

[Nari]

If it helps I pay £18 for a big square bale of hay, that includes delivery & it's good clean stuff (also supplies some of the local racing yards). There are a lot more than 9 slices to a bale! I'm told that there's usually 8-10 bales small bales to a large one.