how much will you spend feeding hay/haylage this winter?

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we currently pay £30 a roll of haylage. and cant get any hay from our supplier. We have eight horses and two of them get bad guts on haylage so ideally need hay. We go through a bale every 2-3 days or so in the winter. I went to look at some cheaper haylage today and it wasnt quite as nice. And he wanted to charge £20 delivery even though we would have been spending over 200 pound on haylage a time with him. We used to pay £17 a roll of haylage before the hike last winter and even though the cut is much better this year, the prices have stayed up :-( I only own two of which need feeding but one of those is one that needs hay. Its just getting ridiculous.
another question- How long does one round bale last you for one or two horses. My tb has adlib which roughly equates to four haynets a day and the mare has 3 nets a day.
I am thinking of feeding adlib haylage and cutting down the hard feed they have. They only get high fibre feed anyway and no expensive mixes.
 
I have just had a delivery of the big 8foot square bales.
One of those will last one of mine probably about 3 weeks. With 3 in a field about 10 days per field.
Am currently paying £25 a bale.
 
Mine is all included in the livery charge - goes up £20 per week from the summer but includes ad lib hay/haylage and shavings so I think it's a real bargain :)
 
£50 - £60 for a round of hay is the cheapest i can find at the mo which is worrying, my two ponies go through a round a month roughly .. so alot :o
 
My hay went up from 2.50 a bale to £4 and this year it will be £5.25. I need 200 bales for my two for six months - they eat a bale a day easily between them so my bill is going to be £1,050 - ouch ouch ouch.

At least so far my bedding has not gone up and I have bought my first ton which does me about three months.
 
im just doing my math, would you say you get about 40 nets to a round bale? im trying to work out how long one would last my two.
 
I've got a 4 year old TB who is an extremely poor do-er ... for the month we get ad-lib haylage for £42.50 which is a dream as the donkey eats so bloody much!!
Our yard is £2.50 for a bale and considering i'd be going through about 10 bales a week the haylage is ideal.

SS x
 
If we hadnt moved to have more grazing land i worked it out at about £1000 for three months worth of forage minimum!!

Now will be spending about half that (£486). I use 1 small bale of hay per night plus two bales of barley straw per week and two bales of haylage per week (small bales)

so per week cost is just over £40.
 
You really don't want to know:eek::(

I know that my hay bill was in excess of 4000 to fill the barns (squares and rounds) and I buy my hay off the field, so it is half the price it would cost me out of a barn.

I use about 70 small bales a week at the moment.

I will be feeding hay until the end of May, at the earliest, and I will double that amount, easily, when the snow comes.
 
I pay £30 for a big round bale of hay delievered, the farmer delivers 2 at a time. Last year I got through 3 a fortnight!! This year I have moved so more turn out with better grass and I have changed one of the horses for a really good doer so based on the last week when I have had 2 or 3 in most days:

HAY
1 bale every 2 - 3 weeks @£30/bale for 30 weeks from end september till start may (though 2 should stay out for most October and go out in April ideally) is 10 -15 bales £300 -£450. With the 2 better doers staying out longer and coming in later I'm hoping nearer the £300 mark. May have to supplement with hayledge toward spring when Lottie is looking a little sim and Beau starts to cough as the stored hay gets dustier. Spend £10/week on those 2 but they dont always need hayledge

FEED on average, a little more in deep winter, a little less initially
1/2 x Alfa A per month - £5.5
1.5 x Chaff per month - £7.5
1/2 sugar beet per month - £3.5
1.5 x topline per month - £16.5
£33/month for 6 months £198.

Unless I buy any more flipping horses!!
 
I get through 10 small bales a week for my two at £4 a bale. That's £160 a month. Much cheaper than the haylage I was on end of last season, those silly small horsehage things! Cost me over £10 a day!!
 
I'm paying 30 euros a big round bale atm and hope it stays that price. I estimate I'll spend around 7-800 euro over winter hay being my main feed.
 
Ready reckoner for a six month winter is 100 small bales of hay per medium, "normal" appetite horse. A big round bale is generally equal in volume to 10 small bales, although I think it's generally about 12, really.
 
mmmm prob about £10 a week at most for my lass dependent on weather - 2 slices a night 3 if snow on ground or temp goes below minus 1 :) god dont you love good doers and good turnout :) x x
 
Snap!! I too love good doers!! It frustrates me as we waste so much hay over the winter cos my fat cob will not touch hay when he's turned out!! Even in the snow I chuck him loads out & he just digs for grass!! & I have way too much grass in the summer!!
 
A £35 bale of haylage will last my 2 about 2 weeks. Thats ad-lib.
Last year it worked out just over £1 per day each. I will probably spend about £500 this winter.

YO has some manky old hay in which is £4 a bale. A bale would last less than a day:o so cant really complain.
 
Although not the best hay I have ever seen, I am paying £20 for big bales this year. :)which I am very happy with.I have requested 10. I used 5 massive oblong bales last winter @£40 and this kept my two with ad lib forage......The joys of living on Exmoor!
 
We pay £45 each for the big square haylage bales and the round rolls of hay cost £65, small individual bales of hay are £8 near me! I know last winter for haylage i was paying out £90 every 6 weeks. Dont think il work it out as il probably pass out, what can you do though they have to chew something!!:(
 
I pay £30 for a large round bale delivered. We actually have some grass this year so hoping we wont be adding hay in the field until Xmas time. Last year it was so bad we were ad libbing hay from end of September as there was no grass at all. I reckon I spend about £10 a week in the winter for hay. I sometimes supplement this with a bag of blue HorseHage but the price of that keeps escalating!
 
This is the 1st winter I am buying in my own as I have moved from a livery yard.
I have manged to get large round haylage bales for £25 a bale delivered this will last mine and 3 others (one of which is my shettie) about a week to 10 days I was thinking so will be looking at getting about 25-30 bales, my farmer is very good brings 5 then all I do is phone him a week before and he will bring me 5 more at a time.

Last few winters being at livery it was 6p/lb as yard owner had started getting really petty and weighing everyone's nets even the Shetlands who only got 3lb!! It was costing me about £15/week there!

I will be saving quite a few pennies this winter!
 
Im going to use a bale just for my two and see how long it lasts them, its usually included in my rent but i want to make sure i am paying her enough to cover haylage costs for my two! Think we have found some hay at a good price to so thats the problem horses sorted! Im preparing all ready! This winter is going to come sooner than we think!! need to go to dunelm and get my paper for my bedding and bed the stables up ready!! :-(
 
We have 14 living out, 9 ponies and 5 Horses, all 16.2+. I reckon we will go through 2 big bales of hay a week for the ponies and 3 big square haylage bales for the horses, so I reckon not far off £150 a week...........eek!
 
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