How much do you pay for hay/ haylege

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OliviaSJ

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Hi how much are you guys reckon your spending on hay/ haylege per week at the moment and how much do you pay for a bale ? Thanks , havent bought my own hay in a while and wanted to know what the normal figure is for it :)
 
Seems to vary hugely throughout the country - I had a good cut this year off my field and sold a few small bales from it for £3.50 delivered. Delivery was a pain to say the least (involving someones steep drive way and a wheelbarrow !) so will offer it to them next year at £2.50 off the field if we get another good cut.

I buy big round bale haylage which is delivered one or more at a time for £25 per bale.

Someone else i know is paying £3 per bale hay delivered.
 
£30.00 big round bale haylage. Feeding 2 x 12.2, 1 x 16h, 1x 15.2, 1 x 17.2 and 1 x hunter foal lasts 5/6 days and is mixed with a little good quality hay.
Worcestershire area, horses in at night and 4 of them out in day with it in the paddocks.
 
Meant to say I use haylage in mid winter as cheaper - 2 horse get through one big bale every 10 days or so, if I used hay I would be using about 1.5 bales a day !! They are out in day on rubbish field and in at night
 
£20 a big (ish) bale of haylage - good quality - no problems at all - and a fab supplier.

hay (smalls) 4.50 a bale :o (hence why i changed as i was using 4 a week!)
 
£5 a bale for fab quality meadow hay ( Use 2 max a week for sec a)
£35 for great haylage (large round bale -2 big horses on it - lasts a week -10 days)
All on site from YO so no delivery or probs in bad weather :)
 
Our bales are £40, and we have to collect. It is the cheapest we can find around here, and we have to collect :( It still saves me a bundle in the long run!!

Oh & small bales are £6 around here... some are more expensive than haylage!
 
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£6 a bale in Cambridge. Up from £4 last winter. Very soft, fine green hay (luxury hay) but hurts when it costs that much.

So got some £3 a bale stuff from a local field but mine refused to touch it. Sold it to someone else for £3 whose horses weren't so fussy.

Then got some more £3 a bale stuff from another local field, timothy, stemmy as baled later than my £6 stuff, and they will eat this under sufferance provided it's mixed half/half with the £6 stuff in their nets overnight. Mixed loose and put in the field by day, they spend ages troughing it about to get to the good stuff so there's more wastage of the £3 stuff... but it's keeping them busy at a time of year when there's no grass, and makes the good hay take longer for them to eat.
 
I'm in a similar area to you. I only pay £15 for a big square bale of haylage because its made off my own fields, but I have heard the norm is ranging between £23-26 round here. This was pre-xmas though. Hay I buy in from the farmer in big bales, will try and find out how much I pay for it, must have written it down somewhere!. :)
 
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I'm paying between £40-£60 for a round of hay at the mo! :o
Can't feed haylege as have two welshies but I'm going through roughly one a month so £10 - £15 a week for a welsh a and d isn't too bad I guess!
 
£6.99 for small bale, i used one every other day for two horses! OUCH!!! Its actually cheaper to get haylage but gives my girl the runs, £50 for big bale which lasts my two a month, but I have moved yards and this yard doesnt have a tractor so cant get big bales delivered!
 
£3 small bale hay, £2 straw and I think it is £25 for large square bale haylage but I don't have haylage it so I might be a £1 out.

Grown onsite and only available to liveries, delivered to your own pallet area 6 days a week :D We are very lucky in that respect.

I use half a bale of hay a night and about 2 bales straw per week. My calendar monthly bill is about £63 (for 1 Welsh cob in at night).
 
I pay £35 per round bale haylage of excellent quality. We were buying from a local hay merchant at £40/bale for consistently wonderful stuff but the horses didnt really need the extra energy so the slightly cheaper yet good stuff is ideal.

One bale lasts two 16hh horses approx 14-20 days fed adlib at night-time (although last two weeks they have been in on box rest so obviously one bale per week(ish) at current consumption rate).
 
We bought large bales haylage (6 string) for £30 each which last 4 small horses between 7-9 days depending on turnout/weather etc.

I also sourced some 'rough' hay for the shetlands at £2.50 per bale, and have an emergency supply of better quality hay for £4 a bale.

We are on the shrops/welsh borders
 
£5.25 small bale, but it's really nice stuff and they are big bales (for small ones if that makes sense). Made by my YO, so I know there is no ragwort etc. As she is just getting over a forage related liver problem I don't mind paying it for the peace of mind.
 
£6 for a small bale of hay, lasts me just under a week.
£80 for a massive bale of hay thats equivalent to about 25 small bales, so that works out as £3 ish a small bale
 
£2.30 per small bale,already on the yard as we bought it off the field last year.Since the snow we have been getting through a bale a week for 1 x 13hh pony.Prior to that I'd used 2 bales from July to December.Pony lives out 24/7.
 
Olivia!! I would tell you but I know from experience its double the price round here then it is round you - find a local farmer rather than the feed stores its usually a lot cheaper :D xx
 
We pay 25 for a large round bale of haylage and 20 for large square bale of straw.
Haylage lasts 5 days between five horses and straw lasts 8 days between four of them. OH cob is on flax and shavings.
 
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