How many bales???

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helly86

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Hello! Always been on livery yards where you pay a set amount for hay each week and you can use as much as you need, so have never kept track of how much my boy eats but i'm moving to a private yard so wont have this luxury any more. How many bales do you get through in a week per horse so I can guestimate what I'll need to order.

Thanks!

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Mine are generally on big bale haylage in depths of winter as cheaper - they get through one big bale every 10 days which my suppllier will delivery one bale at a time for £25 (1 wrap it in tarpaulin with rope round and take off a layer at a time to fill nets) but if on hay would eat anything up to almost one bale a day each - that would be in depths of winter if they were in with no hard feed or grazing - they are good doers 15.2 and 16h.

Hope this helps
 
meesha said:
Mine are generally on big bale haylage in depths of winter as cheaper - they get through one big bale every 10 days which my suppllier will delivery one bale at a time for £25 (1 wrap it in tarpaulin with rope round and take off a layer at a time to fill nets) but if on hay would eat anything up to almost one bale a day each - that would be in depths of winter if they were in with no hard feed or grazing - they are good doers 15.2 and 16h.

Hope this helps
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very helpful, thank you!
 
My TB gets through half a bale a night when stabled overnight in the winter. She can have as much as she can get down her neck and that lasts her all night - so thats 3 and half small bales a week.

My old boy however has restricted hay so has about four slabs a night and gets through about 2 bales a week.

Of course that all doubled when we had snow as they had hay in the field during the day.
 
usually 150 Bales lasts my mum and I all winter - out 24/7 - 4 layers at night - 2 for breakky.
2x 16hh not very hard working chunkies.

Unless harsh weather - then a 50 bale spring top up works fine.
 
mine live out 24/7 but if they do come in during winter due to lack of grass/snow etc etc The NF (not in work as a youngster) gets through 1/4 of a bale a night in a haylage net. The TB when we had her on loan got 1/3 of a bale in a haylage net but sometimes had some left over so I was getting through about 4 bales a week for 2 or one round bale (if I could get it delivered would last me a month for the both of them.) Hope this helps :)
 
helly86 said:
Yes, I do appreciate that but i'm just trying to work out from other people's experience.:-)
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Even from other people's experience it would be impossible to know if it was right for your horse. If you have a Section A the needs are going to be far different to if you have a 14.2 or 16hh. A small bale weighs around 25 kilos on average so by working out 2 to 2.5% your own horse's forage requirements, and adjusting for any hard feed you use, you should be able to work it out to almost the bale.
 
With one pony (14.2 native) I went through 4 big bales of hay in winter.
With two natives (14.2 and 14hh) I went through 9 bales in winter. They averaged one bale every 3-4 weeks when grass was thin and a bale even 10-14 days when ground was covered in snow.
 
My Welsh Sec D (good doer) is in at night all year from 7pm through to 5am and he has one third of a bale of hay. So he gets through 10 bales per month.
 
I have 2 TB's they get through 1.5 bales of hay a night when they are in (I try to keep them out 24/7 during the summer). In the winter they are on haylage the larger rectanglar bales and this lasts both 9/10days (as much as they can eat)
 
it's been a couple of years since i had to think about hay for my lot (included in the livery now) but if i remember correctly i went through between 8 and 11 bales a week for my lot, at that time there was a 17.2hh ID, a 13.2hh lami prone pony and 2 youngsters both about the 12hh mark.
when i had my TB i was going through an extra bale a night for her alone.
 
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