What Do Yours Eat first - Hay or Haylage?

[Maesfen]

Just opened our first bale of haylage we had made this summer and it smells great - not that I'd like to eat it myself!
As a result, the neds are having some slices of hay in their racks with a net of haylage on the side so they can pick and mix and get used to it before we run out of hay; (my only complaint about haylage, without nets it makes such a mess and ends up down your shirt when you're trying to put it in the racks!

) and I always swore I wouldn't use nets!
Now, Dotty, Joey and Misty who haven't had much haylage ever before, make a beeline for the nets and scoff that before they start on the hay but Bea who was on haylage before she came here, eats all her hay first before she starts on the haylage; none of them pick and mix!

What do you think yours would do?

 

[samp]

Mine have always gone for the haylage first

 

[Woody&Rockie]

The ones who are on hay make a bee line for the haylage and my other pony whos on haylage trys to pinch the others hay!
Very strange! always want what they cant have!

 

[Nailed]

i dont know about Ted.. I'd say he would go for the hayledge but he can be a funny git
Lou x

 

[ihatework]

Haylage first although if you put haylage in a net and decent hay on the floor he might be tempted by the hay first as would take less effort to cram it down his neck!

 

[Baileysno1]

Ryu whinnies to his net of haylege when I hang it up - enough said I think

 

[HBII]

Haylage definatley

like someone else said the net might even get a whicker or a bang on the door

Hb

 

[AmyMay]

Haylage every time.................

 

[ladylisa]

Not sure about Lady but my sisters horse Matt would go for whatever was nearest to him!...lol

 

[Theresa_F]

Cairo - haylage like a shot apart from carrots with green tops, this is one of his fav feeds - I buy him a bale for Christmas.

Chancer likes it, but at our last show the other horse had hay and he swopped nets with them. Red was very pleased with this arrangement, she obviously prefers haylage.

 

[Tempi]

Bloss wont eat hay.........

 

[Dogbetty141]

Mine wants hay if not on hay and vice versa

 

[Saf]

My horse has both and will always eat the hay first like it is going out of fashion, weird mare

 

[miamibear]

Definately haylage, because he doesnt get it normally and its supposed to taste nicer - not too keen on trying that out myself though!!

xx

 

[Maesfen]

It's weird isn't it how different (or contrary!) they all are?! Nice to know my lot aren't 'strange' as I first thought!!

 

[helenandshadow]

My girly eats the haylage first every time!

 

[wiglet]

My two have always gone for the haylage first... until this year - for some reason they both seem to prefer the hay made on the farm rather than the bought in haylage.

 

[skye123]

haylage!! she goes for it straight away.

used to be stabled next to a horse though who had the really expensieve hayledge and he always used to nick my ponys hay and she did the same to his hayledge. never happy with what theyv`e got!!

 

[Eliza120280]

Mine loves his hay.....always eats that first when I put up a net of each over night!

 

[Twinkle Twinkle]

my boy always eats his hay he always has haylage left in the morning.

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Haylage 1st, but only because she is not allowed it (goes through her like a dose of salts)!!! My old TB would go for haylage because she was on hay and the Cob with COPD would go for her hay because she was on haylage.