Horse hage?

[Flowers187]

Hello Just a quick question, anybody who feeds horsehage through the winter, how much do they pay per bag and how many bags do you feed a day? (mine would also want 2 medium large nets a day).

She got diagnosed with a mild dust allergy after getting a cold last winter, and she used to have hay and straw, so obvioulsy looking at changing bedding to a deeplitter dust free kind, and since she gets very tubby from regular hayledge (what she has now), so I thought the 'diet' horsehage is best. Shes had horsehage a few years ago when she used to live in at night in the summer, and was enormous and this did help her weight out alot and she loved it!
Thanks in advance

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

I use Aubiose for bedding, sometimes with wood pellets mixed in. Great bed, the horses prefer it and it is soo much quicker to muck out and rots down quickly too. Looks expensive but whereas I used to use a wheelbarrow of straw or half a bale of shavings a day each for my messy nags, they now only get one bale of Aubiose and one bag of pellets each a week hurrah!

Horsehage wise, it's the blue high fibre one, I would say that two not too big (they vary a bit within the bale) sections would make up a decent haynet. But bear in mind too that they will eat every scrap of it and no waste like with hay. So you might get through a bale for one horse every 2+ days.

I think it costs us about £8 ish a bale but I try to look away when the chap hands me the copy invoice, it's too painful. We are in NE Scotland tho so it might be more up here (altho we can at least get reasonable ish hay prices as its rained all summer!)

 

[Flowers187]

£8 a bale! Just emailed my local feed shop to find out how much theirs is, just been thinking back really long and hard and seem to remember it costing around £5 and lasting about 5 days but that was with one hay net a day, think im going to end up with hayledge and just have to ride alot! Thanks on the aubiose suggestion! I heard cushionbed is meant to be very similar to that but half the price?

 

[dumpling]

I use horse hage, blue fibre one. It's about £7/£8 a bag and I use about 1 bag every 5 days, but my wee guy is a pony and it's just for night time.

I wish it was £5 a bag, I could cope with that!!