** Haylage use - for all horse owners/managers **

[Flicker]

Because like others on here, I often give up my time to attempt to complete surveys that get posted on HHO, usually by uni students. Only too often, the surveys have been rushed out with inadequate proof reading, and it is we punters who have to point that fact out. Gets a bit tiresome after a time.

Yes, clearly it does...

 

[Shilasdair]

I agree with the people - the survey design isn't great.
For example I'm now stuck on the question of whether haylage has a higher or lower nutritional content than hay - impossible. I feed timothy haylage for my fatty, precisely for its low nutritional content, but I have also been known to feed lucerne hay, known for high nutrient content.
So - it depends.

Seriously Dr Daniels, if you want us to participate, you need to reconsider your survey design.

 

[JanetGeorge]

Thank you for your comment, we only require 4 answers, you can if you wish go up to 11 but it is not a requirement. We just want the top 4 thinks you would look for and for them to be prioritized in an order. Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey thus far.

Well, Dr_S_Daniels: trying to complete your survey was a total waste of my time. NO-ONE who uses haylage has thought quite so much about specific reasons in all these 'factors' (and I feed 34+ horses on haylage.) And you exclude some principle advantages: cost - and convenience of storage. I tried several different 'versions' of answers to q. 10 - And NONE were 'ACCEPTABLE'. As a survey, it is FAR too long and too complex. And the results will therefore be fairly useless to anyone (other than those collecting a fat salary.) NOT impressed. For a survey to get a good and useful response, it should be based on no more than about 5 questions. And what is the point of including 'other' and giving a response to WHY, when you have to rank 10 other irrelevent points?? There should also be a warning - before people start wasting their time - about how long it would take.

 

[TotalMadgeness]

Hmmm... Well I did it, but the survey seems to assume that all types of haylage can be lumped together.. Which they can't. For example.. I can feed Timothy haylage ad lib, but ryegrass would be too calorific.

Same here.

 

[JanetGeorge]

Same here.

Very much so. An assumption that all haylage is the same - as are the horses. But it totaqlly ignores the most likelyreasons people decide to use haylage rather than hay. With hay, the price goes up the closer you get to winter - haylage tends to stay the same. And, of course, haylage can be stored outside. Our contractor puts most of the load in two convenient places, then takes 1 or more bales to different places around the farm, making feeding FAR easier. I note Dr_S_Daniels isn't at work today, lol.

 

[Equi]

I didn’t finish as the tables just got too time consuming and confusing.

 

[The Jokers Girl]

I have completed. Thanks

 

[baran]

[My horse is on livery, the haylage is made on the farm and the choice of mixing hay and haylage is because of compromising horses preference with weight management and other factors...and because I can (being on a livery yard where both is available). There weren't options available which let me answer in this way.

This, couldn't have put it better myself [/QUOTE]

Agreed. Question 4 - no suitable option. Question 5 - don't have my own premises. Doesn't seem geared up to livery owners.

 

[sharni]

Done. good survey. And suitable for those who dont feed haylage