How many bales of hay .....

[Evelynmary]

did your horse eat last month? A bit surprised to get my bill for 20 bales in January and they are good sized bales that I find difficult to lift. This is for a 16.1 warmblood.

 

[nikki_07766]

We use 30 a month, that's for a 16H cob and a 17H ISH, they have as much as they can eat....

 

[LadyRascasse]

about 40 bales of haylage last month between 2 of them but that was due to 2 weeks in 24/7 my gelding normally is out during the day.

 

[Lollii]

We use about a bale a day each for our big horses horses (16.1hh - 18hh) at this time of year, we have 6 of them that are this size - can't imagine what our hay costs - I don't even want to add it up - scary

 

[marvie]

Does he get any turnout?

 

[BobbyMondeo]

I used 17 bales last month for my boy on box rest

 

[xnaughtybutnicex]

I use about 3 bales a week so about 12-15 bales a month. She only gets turned in the school (bad mud fever) and is a 14.2hh chunky cob. It is possible you used that much.

And happy birthday LadyR.

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

My 2 use about 6 a week....so around 24 in total. 20 for one horse seems a little excessive

 

[JulietFrancis]

Three of my liveries (16-16.2 hh TBs) used as much hay as you describe or a little more last month. Only 3 days in due to snow. My 14.2 Welsh D did the same!

 

[Equestrian92]

Well I cant remember how many sections are in a bale but at the minute Im going through about 22 sections per day.
2 youngsters that live out, an irish tb, retired connie and a sh*tland, good job its our own hay really!

 

[nicky_jakey]

I assume you mean for the month of Jan?
If so, then I used 15 bales for my 16hh TB. This is 2 overnight haynets + 2 sections in the field per day.
Hopefully I can start to reduce the hay a bit once the weather gets a bit warmer & grass starts to grow!

 

[Aoibhin]

sadly have no idea as due to being heavly pregnant now the farmer that cuts, stores & delivers my hay a bale at a time when needed has been cutting the twine & putting straight into hayrack for them when its low, rather than leaving it by the gate (he is old & has firm veiws on male/female roles)

 

[Louby]

When I was on hay I used 4 bales a week, out during the day but massive net at night. She was a 16.1 shire x TB

 

[Evelynmary]

I went back through my bills and found I used 14 bales January last year and 19 in February. Think we had serious and prolonged snow in February so the increase must be snow related despite having very little grass in his field at this time of the year, he obviously finds something and prefers it to hay.

 

[gem2buc]

I go through about 30 bales/month (1 per day) for a 16.1Hh Tb, 18 month fill and 8 month foal. They are out 24/7 - not much grass; although my big boy will come in at night if very cold or bad and then he will have 1/2 bale of hay on his own overnight.

 

[TicTac]

Sounds about right given the cold weather etc. My 16.1 warmblood mare gets through about 5 bales of haylage ( small bales) a week and my 15.1 TB x Con gelding eats about 2 1/2 bales of hay a week supplemented with haylage.

 

[Enfys]

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My 2 use about 6 a week....so around 24 in total. 20 for one horse seems a little excessive

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If I was feeding small bales (mine average about 60lbs) then the QH's weighing in at 1200lb + would be getting one bale a day, generally there would be some left over in the mornings. That is allowing for the fact that they live out, most are in foal, there is no grass whatsoever and it's permanently pretty nippy. I have four that size, two smaller ones that would share a bale a day, then the mini's, the QH weanling, the angus calf and the goat would get through another one.

I actually have no idea how much (balewise) I feed because they are on round bales at the moment. None of mine are fat, they are nicely covered though and that's just how I need them.

 

[devilwoman]

I use about 30 per month for 2 of them, thats between in the field during day and stable overnight.

 

[Echo Bravo]

4 horses, no longer have cows, make our own hay last year cos of the weather made 435bales on 5 acres. The past few weeks the horses have wasted hay so have cut back on what I give them as cann't afford to buy hay in later as it's £5 a bale at the moment. And hopefully it will last out to end of April and I've got fingers and toes crossed

 

[marvie]

My 17.1 ISH veteran has 3 sections a night, but when the snow is on the ground him and his companion had half a bale to share in the paddock. The girls have one and a half sections a night. We do take the hay ourselves and know that it has a relativeley high calorific value, SS does your yard owner feed over yeared hay, that may explain why more is needed.

 

[PennyJ]

3 NF ponies all on adlib big bale haylage. I just had the 4th bale delivered since the very end of December. So I would say at about 10 bales/big bale, I've got through 30 bales. Each bale lasts about 10 days.