How much do you pay for large round hay?

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Per bale, and if you can say where you are in the country it would be helpful :).

I'm only asking as the price of ours has gone up again from £36/bale to £40! :eek: (5ft bales, very loosely baled) And that's if you collect it, delivery is a minimum order of 3 bales + £20 delivery charge; they're only 6 miles from the yard.
There's only one hay supplier around here because most people feed haylage. Hay is not good quality, very dusty.
 
I'm in Lincolnshire. We pay £18 in the summer and £27.50 through the cold months, that includes free delivery.
 
I used to pay £15 for 2014 cut hay or £20 for 2015 cut, and that was including delivery.
We had to order at least 6 bales, but between me and my friend, we could easily use it.
I'm in Wiltshire, I'd never pay £40, that's extortionate!!
 
Only buy what you need now. Then when the grass is growing, shop around as farmers want to clear their barns so it will be cheap. Buy hay £10 - £15 a bale, stack outside in rows on pallets, and cover the top half of the bale with plastic. It will still be good for winter 2016/2017.

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Thanks everyone, confirms my suspicions that we're being ripped off big time :(. I recently found out that the supplier is getting it delivered from their supplier for £10/bale so they're making a massive profit on it. Now I've just got to find some from a different source before next winter.


Dry Rot said:
Only buy what you need now. Then when the grass is growing, shop around as farmers want to clear their barns so it will be cheap. Buy hay £10 - £15 a bale, stack outside in rows on pallets, and cover the top half of the bale with plastic. It will still be good for winter 2016/2017.[...]
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Unfortunately the yard I'm on only has storage for one bale at a time. We have space at home but there's no way to get a big vehicle or trailer up the (steep, narrow, and long) drive.
 
£35 delivered Central Scotland....
We could get it alot cheaper though but on livery so we take what we get.
 
Crikey I wish it was that cheap here, £40 for square and round bales. Large hay like haylage are better value as about 15 small bales in them, they are £40 too. Very few suppliers.
 
Im in the east and have paid this winter, tight baled 5ft £35 and loose £25, i had quotes from a lot of people and most were more around £40incl delivery with a minimum order. Really shows it depends where you are!
 
Wow..I'm in Central Scotland and pay £45 per bale from YO who gets it delivered from a local farmer. It is tightly baled and possibly bigger than 5 feet? I hope so anyway as I'm being ripped off otherwise! :\
 
Before you think you are being ripped off - hay is at a premium this year some farms only managed one cut. Usually it is first cut for their own livestock, 2nd cut to sell. The farmer I get my bales off got one cut last year and has already gone through it and is having to buy in. I'm still only paying £25 a bale fortunately - some places near me are charging £50-60 a bale! I usually cut my own but the summer was that poor that by the time the grass was long enough to cut, the ground was too wet to cope with a tractor :( I took none off mine :(
 
Central Scotland and - sensing a theme here - £30 per bale, plus £10 delivery if I get three. So effectively £33 per bale. I can get a huge round bale of very tightly baled dry haylage for £35, but with a horse on box rest, haylage is a no-no if we want to survive with horse's and my sanity intact.

I have also found the quality very variable - quite dusty - but since it's Scotland I honestly don't know how they manage to make hay at all, the rain rarely seems to break for long enough! So I am thankful for what I can get, and getting a bit worried that if horse is on box rest all summer, it will get increasingly hard to come by. Now I want to know how I can ship a whole load of these £15 bales from down south!
 
Northampton so a relatively expensive part of the world is £35 delivered and stacked in your space. There is a small minimum order but he does what he can to fit you in with other people.
 
Western Scotland....and I haven't found a local supplier of big bales (I came from Lancashire originally and there were several suppliers) so I have to resort to normal baled hay, or small baled haylage at £8.50 each....which my 17.3 could easily eat through in one day.
 
We have the big 6x4ft rectangle bales, lasts me ages and cost £40. These are delivered for free. It's good hay, my horse loves it and get a lot out of one bale. I'm in west midlands.
 
I have to pay £13 a week for a pony that gets a 2kg haynet twice a day ( in 24/7 ). Im therefore effectively paying £156 for a round bale of rubbish hay. The yard dont allow you to use an outside source. 1 round bale of hay would last my pony 100 days stabled 24/7 and 200 days if out during the day. I used to pay £25 a round bale and it was good hay.
 
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