Quality of hay at the moment

[pocket]

Whats everyones hay like at the moment? It seems that down in Kent, its a little hit and miss, sometimes we get good dust free hay and other weeks its really bad.

I soak my hay and always have due to Ralphs COPD, but sometimes you can get away with 15 minutes soaking, the meadow hay I have now is really bad and needs soaking for ages.

Whats the rest of the county like????

 

[katie_southwest]

Quite dusty..I sometimes have a bad throat after being around it and it being blown into my face!

 

[Boltonrider]

It's flamin awfull!!!

Got a soddin big thorn in my silky smooth finger today....
ouch it hurt!!!

And that was with gloves on!!
Does seem fairly "dusty" must admit

 

[Hurtle]

I am sorry to say that I find Kent hay to be generally of poor quality and expensive. I don't know why this is the case maybe supply and demand.

 

[PennyJ]

No, our's isn't great. Extremely compacted, a bit dusty, just doesn't look very nice. Even our greedy New Forest ponies are turning their noses up at it and (shock horror) leaving some of it every night. Still, they're both a bit chubby, so it won't do them any harm... They usually just trough up everything they're given, so this is very unusual behaviour!

 

[slingo1uk]

Its a bit hit n miss by me too having to look around for better but have found a brill way to sort out crappy hay go to stableyard and look under steamed hay.

 

[Cop-Pop]

Ours is naff but we weren't able to bale it until the flood waters receeded so it was cut too late.

 

[flyingfeet]

Ours is fine, the neds are all very fat!

However cannot sell it for love or money. I keep putting ads up at countrywide, but someone keeps taking them down

Will probably end up flogging ours to a hay merchant at this rate.

 

[toomanyhorses26]

We got our hay from a farm in canterbury and it was fab stuff not dusty and really heavy bales (I had to stack them!!

) but could only fit 100 bales in our barn which doesn't last very long with 3 big neddies. Then bought some from south of maidstone and it was rubbish think we were shown some different hay when we went to look at it ended up throwing most of it sooo definatelty agree with kent hay being a bit hit and miss!!

 

[BeckyD]

Ours is cr*p and the horses keep turning their noses up at it (so it must be bad)

 

[VLHIEASTON]

well mine wont even eat marksway ryegrass horsehage !!! must be a bad batch as i have never had that prob b4 ever.

 

[SO1]

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No, our's isn't great. Extremely compacted, a bit dusty, just doesn't look very nice. Even our greedy New Forest ponies are turning their noses up at it and (shock horror) leaving some of it every night. Still, they're both a bit chubby, so it won't do them any harm... They usually just trough up everything they're given, so this is very unusual behaviour!

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I am also having trouble with my forester and hay at the moment - we got a big batch in at our yard and it is really varied he'll eat some bales but others he won't touch and I have ended up throwing away some bales which is very annoying as am paying £4.50 a bale!