Hay Prices

between £5.50 and £6.00 a bale (small ones) down in Surrey... got a quote from kent other day and they are offering £5.95 per bale delivered to surrey !!!
 
Ours went up from £3.50 last year to £4.50 this year, but they are really big bales, and nice hay, so will last longer than a bale of last years... that price is for buying small loads every few months...
 
Mine are £2 per bale and he delivers it for me at no charge (50 at a time)... and no I'm not telling you where from lol he is mine!! ;o)

Edited to say that I am in Shropshire

Liz
 
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OH is charging £5/bale and that is top quality weed free, dense baled hay, that was cut from fields intended for and grown specifically for haylage - it dried too much to be baled as haylage, so was left a bit longer and baled as hay. We are near Bury St Edmunds. He could have sold our supply several times over, but is keeping some back for after christmas.
 
I pay £2.50 for quite large bails of good quality hay, dreading when its all gone though, cheapest other is £3.50 which is expected to double by Christmas!!

Im in Yorkshire
 
My usual supplier charged £3 per bale & it's really good meadow hay. The price went up this year from £2.50 due to the crop being less thqan usual. Unfortunately I only got half my normal 12 monthly order so I've had to go elsewhere to secure my needs. Managed to buy some large rectangular bales @ £20 each, again very nice hay & hopefully I have what I need until next summer.

Oh....before people think I'm panic buying, I'm not, I always order & pay for my 12 monthly hay needs in one go.
 
Our usual supplier has quoted £6 per bale (£4 last year)...we are hunting for alternative suppliers but not having much luck. This is an expensive area to keep horses...the urban West Midlands was MUCH cheaper!
 
I got some earlier this year from my straw suppler straw 60p / bale, hay £1.75 .Yep, not a typing error!!! He didn't have a lot i got 50 and its really nice. He is just a little farm, doing most of it himself My main supplier though does rounds of 8-10 small bale equivilent and they are £25 so i think i'm doing ok. In my feed shop this morning adverts ranged from £3.00 - £4.50. I'm in West Lincolnshire
 
im paying £5 for a standard size square bale of hay here in county durham. it wa £3.50 two month ago and then went up to £4 and within two weeks it was up to a fiver,just bloody ridiculous.the cheapest i can find is £3.50 when buying more than one bale.personally i think it's time farmers had price regulations like other businesses do,they aren't the only ones struggling with bills but you'd think they were the way they are allowed to hike up the price as they wish.
 
The prices of hay are frightening. Not sure what I am going to do as not got a horse yet but farm I am on has absolutely dreadful hay so Im not using that.

How many small bales would you go through a winter (for 1 horse)?
 
Penfold ..... i use 200 small bales per year for 1 horse , i do keep her in overnight 24/7.
i buy 200 at a time when they hay is cut and lasts me till next years hay cut
 
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penfold - i have 2 horses... mainly out through the winter but were on hay out last winter as they couldn't get to the grass (beneathe 3ft of snow) - we used 9 round bales, so about 90 square, between TWO horses.
 
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