Haylage: what am I missing?

[Wagtail]

i have a dope on a rope maxi cob, perfect in everyway and forward pleasure to ride. Give her haylage and it is like lighting the blue touch paper. All she needs is adlib coarse hay and 3 pony cubes.

On the soaking of haylage, something I have never done, how the heck to you lift it. I can barely lift the haylage nets now, they are weighing in at 20kgs ish a night for my big horses, that soaked would be impossible to lift.

Soaked haylage is heavy, but no heavier than soaked hay. I have done both and if hay is soaked for the required 12 hours, it is every bit as heavy as soaked hay. Also, hay usually has more sugar in than haylage so often it is better using a high fibre low sugar haylage such as Marksway horsehage hi fibre, than soaking hay for a laminitic.

 

[AdorableAlice]

Soaked haylage is heavy, but no heavier than soaked hay. I have done both and if hay is soaked for the required 12 hours, it is every bit as heavy as soaked hay. Also, hay usually has more sugar in than haylage so often it is better using a high fibre low sugar haylage such as Marksway horsehage hi fibre, than soaking hay for a laminitic.

That is useful information, I buy big bale haylage rather than the small Marksway bales which would be too expensive for the size and quantity of horses I feed.