Hay prices/sellers Leics/Rutland

[ElleSkywalker]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me what they are paying for hay in leics/rutland, small or large bales?

Also does anyone know any good suppliers?

Thanks

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

I am in Rutland - we are paying about £3.20 or so for a small bale - we get ours from the hay dealers in somerby - they supple the hay for the hunt and a lot of yards round here - lovely good quality meadow hay Sorry can't give you any more details as the YO buys it in bulk from them.

If you have the time you can always go to and speak tot he hay dealers at Melton Market on a Tuesday

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Thanks SU do u know the name of them or where abouts in Somerby they are as my Google search got hay dealer/hay Somerby come up with this post only!

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Sorry I don't - I can ask the YO tomorrow if its any help - I think everyone round here just knows them if that makes sense

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Thanks that would be great, used to work in Somerby & don't know who they are...oophs, not terribly observant me :embarrassed:

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Bump

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Bump for daytime folks

 

[ElleSkywalker]

No one else in Leics/Rutland who uses hay?!

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Bump

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Haven't forgotten - just didn't see YO today

 

[rowy]

we just looked on advert sites such as preloved and picked up 50 bales in the summer ready for winter. Think they were £3.50 a bale.
I know buttercup feeds in melton sells hay but its £5 a bale :O and its not even that nice hay. But if ur desperate its somewhere you can go for the odd one.
Silky unicorn- ooh I never thought of the market, i'll have to have a look!

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Thanks chaps

Slinky, didn't think u had forgotten , was just shocked that there aren't more ponies in leics/rutland that eat hay!!

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I have a phone number for you

 

[PooJay]

i am paying £6-7 a bale atm - mostly because the yard ordered the full winters lot before we got the surprise 2nd cut. We ran out last year and we aren't allowed to source our own so we're stuck with it.

I spent £172 on hay and straw in December

 

[Suechoccy]

Last winter I paid £4 a bale from my usual supplier (used his hay for 11 years) in Cambridgeshire and I have to collect it, load and unload, myself. That price, £4, was an increase of 50p on the previous winter's price.

Last June I bought some more of the previous winter's hay from him, £4 a bale.

Last Sept I bought some more hay from him and he told me it was now £5 a bale for this winter. Huge jump, 25%. My wages haven't gone up 25%. Nonetheless it's nice hay and big tight-packed bales and the horses eat all of it (a bit too quickly, they hoover it up at lightning speed).

In November I went back for my 2nd batch of the winter from him and he told me it was now £6 a bale. This 2nd increase has really peed me off but I was desperate, and so reluctantly I paid £6 a bale.

But I'm now looking elsewhere for hay. 50pc increase in one year is taking the mick esp when he then tells me he's doing me a favour!

So I've found some hay from a known field (so I know it's timothy, no ragwort, just later cut in the year so drier), £3 a bale. Bought one bale Wed night to try on the neds... Bloody horses ate it the first night then last night decided they could only manage 2/3 net each.

Both are fairly rotund at the moment, I reminded them both if they were emaciated WarHorses, they'd eat every last stalk of it, and have decided to use it in the field by day as it lasts them longer, picking through it to find what they can eat, and save the £6 hay for the nets at night. (They gobble the nice hay up like Dyson vacuum cleaners so it doesn't take them very long to eat it. This way they've got something to occupy themselves with for longer during the day).

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Thanks guys, so far am mainly finding it at the 5-5.50 mark so similar to last year even though I know there was a better yeild this year! (had my feild baled & got twice as much as previous year!)

Lovely lovely Slinky, am on my phone so can't pm you, could u pm me the number & I will be eternally in your debt (in fact let me take your lovely welly-booted coblet of ur hands to 'help u out' he he )

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Hmmmmmmpf....

After is appalling behaviour last night and this morning I may take you up on that......

 

[AngieandBen]

I make my own sorry but I used to use Jim Mount at Thorpe Langton 07879 695096 he does charge for delivery; His hay, I think from friends who he supplies is £4.50 a bale

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Thanks Slinky, will keep trying as can't connect at moment *goes off to evict nevthesupershetland to make space for coblet*

Also angieandben, will try them now

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Finally got hold of chap Slinky, he was just lovely & super helpful, same price as everyone else but just so sweet I want to adopt him to tell me tales of hay

Now all I need to do is build a shelter for said hay, then buy some.....

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Good stuff

Don't forget to make room for the Coblet.......behaviour is not improving.....

She 'only' eats a bale of hay a day....

 

[ElleSkywalker]

He he, nevthesupershetland not keen on being hoofed out of her stable, would coblet care to 'room' (well feild) with 2 delightful little foals?!

*goes off to read foals 'behave & look cute' riot act*

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

He he, nevthesupershetland not keen on being hoofed out of her stable, would coblet care to 'room' (well feild) with 2 delightful little foals?!

*goes off to read foals 'behave & look cute' riot act*

Coblet most disappointed at Nev's attitude

As for the foals she has her very own foal riot act she can read them she has done foals - one of her own and one of the liveries here so will have them hoofing the line in now time

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Chuckle, at present nevthesupershetland is the only one reading them riot acts, mum no longer cares for her wee one, & black pony, tho sprogged herself thinks she is still a foal & plots things with them

*wanders of to give nevthesupershetland the 'i'm not cross just disappointed in your lack of hospitality' look & and accompanying sighings*