Non Liveries!

[OhCappaGino]

For those that have there own land and have to buy in haylage/hay! how many bales do you get and for how many horses??

 

[MrsMozart]

One of the big rectangular bales lasts four horses betweent three and five days, depending on whether they can find any grass or not.

I buy them eight at a time.

 

[YorksG]

We buy biggish round bales, to feed 5, a bale is currently lasting about a week, maybe a little less, we do feed barley straw as well, at a ration of about 1/4 to 3/4, but that is because we have 5 horses/ponies who tend to do rather too well!
Our supplier drops us one or two per week of haylage, straw about once a month to six weeks. He is super reliable, thank goodness, we were being supplied by some-one else, who then told us the week before christmas that he did not have any more to sell as his liveries were using much more than he expected! We were very fortunate to be given the current suppliers details.

 

[starbar]

I currently have a heavy cob, a 15.1hh welsh Dx and an 8 month old cob filly. They are on a winter field that has all but run out of grass, will be moved soon. They get through roughly a small bale of good quality hay per day.

 

[welsh_monster]

We have big round bales, 1 lasts somewhere between 7-10 days for 2 horses (good doers, fed sensibly) and 2 ponies (1 fairly good doer, started to drop a bit of weight last couple of winters, and 1 generally poor doer) at this time of year, but our grass has started to spring up so more towards 10+ days now hopefully!

 

[Enfys]

For those that have there own land and have to buy in haylage/hay! how many bales do you get and for how many horses??

Field #1 (x 8 horses) 1 bale every 2-3 days
Field #2 (x 2 ponies) 1 bale last 3 weeks
Field #3 (x 2 horses) 1 bale lasts 10 days
Field #4 (x 3 horses) 1 bale lasts 7 days
Barn and individual paddocks (6 -15 horses fed loose hay) 1 bale lasts 2-3 days (number of horses vary on a day to day basis)

I have my hay stored at another farm and have a load (14 x 750lb rounds) bought down fortnightly. Sometimes I have a surplus, sometimes I need to have them bring me a few bales more often.

 

[Natalie_H]

Two TBs. Both live out 24/7. Currently using one small bale per day. We usually need around 230-250 small bales a year.

 

[Rose Folly]

3 horses, living out 24/7 with shelters and two small hard feeds per day. We get through a big round bale of haylage (c.540 lb) every 15 days. I've been keeping count, and one bale does 135 x 4lb haynets. They get 3 haynets per horse per day - 9.30am, 5.00pm and 1am (when I let the dogs out before bed). The horses' ages range from 10 to 27, and they all look very well (too well). I'll be cutting the haylage down soon.

 

[miss_molly]

1 horse, 1 pony. In depth of winter 1 large round bale lasted 2 weeks. Now lasts about 3 weeks as hay rations have been reduced as temperature has increased, plus they are getting more hi fi as hay supplier has ran out so trying to make it last longer.

 

[Tinypony]

3 living out 24/7. So far I'm up to 180 bales this winter, but mixed size and quality. If they'd all been nice heavy bales of good hay without stalky bits I might have got by with 150. My grass isn't growing much yet, so I'm expecting to be up to about 200 -220 by the time I can stop feeding hay all together, depends on the weather!
(I can't bear to even think about what that lot cost this year!).