Weight of large bale hay, c'mon someone must know, Patches?

[custard]

Well nobody's answered this in stable yard but the question isn't going away! Patches can you ask your OH?

Would like to know weight and average price of the big rectangular bales so that I can go on 'managemyhorse.com', be a real saddo, and put it on horse's diet sheets. The sooper dooper computer will then work out how much it costs to feed them. If you haven't been and had a play on this new website it then do, it's really clever.

 

[Wishful]

Depends on how big the farmer decided to make them!

 

[grandmaweloveyou]

i pay £14.75 for a big bale (rectangular or round bale of hay) couldnt tell you the weight though, one hell of a hard push from one side of the yard to the other with 3 of us pushing!!

 

[The_Tranterer]

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i pay £14.75 for a big bale (rectangular or round bale of hay) couldnt tell you the weight though, one hell of a hard push from one side of the yard to the other with 3 of us pushing!!

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£14.75!?!??! thats amazing.....we are on so-called 'mates rates' and pay £25 for a big bale of hay (rectangular)!

not sure how much it weighs though!

 

[showjump]

Ok, i pay £18.00 for a big rectangle bale, and my dad has guestamated (sp?) they weigh around 250Kg. But i dont know for deffo.

 

[kerilli]

i'd say they're about 3 or 4 to the tonne. it depends how firmly packed they are, tbh, it's like asking how much a horse of 16.2 weighs. it can vary hugely!

 

[MizElz]

my OH has just informed me that they weigh between 300 and 350kg, dependent on the type of baler and the density!

 

[grandmaweloveyou]

yes good rates for the hay, worried it wont last, i was paying £25 per large bale before i moved yards, can you imagine saving half per massive bale (10-12 smalls) its awesome, and pays for the straw in itself

 

[custard]

Thanks folks I'll work on £25 being the most expensive and about 250kg, ta

 

[conniegirl]

We were told there is approximately 20 bales of hay in one big bale of haylege by our local farmer.

 

[Tia]

As others have said, it totally depends on the size the farmer chooses to make them. For example, over here, most "selling" round bales weigh about 600lbs, however because we make hay for ourselves to use aswell, we make the ones we keep at 1.500lbs bales.

For a regular sized large square, I would say they would bale them at around 600 - 800 lbs.