Would you move onto a yard with limited haylege

If its dry haylage, more like hay, 14kg is likely adequate for many types. But if it’s wet haylage 14kg is roughly equates to 8kg hay and you’d likely need more.

I guess the yard is trying to make it fair for all. If adlib was given, there would be people with smaller horses asking for a livery discount because the bigger horses are eating double the amount of hay than their smaller horses.

If you can buy extra off the yard to meet whatever needs your horse has, that would be ideal.
 
I don’t know how much I feed my horse, 1 giant net and 1 medium but he never runs out. I would be ok with that as long as I could buy more if necessary
 
14kg is likely enough for most horses tbh, especially if they have reasonable grazing.
Are you allowed to pay for extra or provide additional small bale, worst case scenario?

It wouldn’t be a show stopper for me unless I had a big poor doer.
 
How big is your horse and what is its weight? A horse should eat between 1.5 and 2.5% of its bodyweight per day. The average 16.- 16.1 sport horse (warmblood or IDXTB) will be about 600kg so at the top end of the scale it needs to eat (as opposed to wants to eat) a total of 15kg/day. Assuming your horse has access to some grazing and has some hard food, 14kg haylage/day should be more than adequate. Maybe your horse is much bigger or needs more than average food but remember there are more obese horses in this country than starving ones!
 
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How big is your horse and what is its weight? A horse should eat between 1.5 and 2.5% of its bodyweight per day. The average 16.- 16.1 sport horse (warmblood or IDXTB) will be about 600kg so at the top end of the scale it needs to eat (as opposed to wants to eat) a total of 15kg/day. Assuming your horse has access to some grazing and has some hard food, 14kg haylage/day should be more than adequate. Maybe your horse is much bigger or needs more than average food but remember there are more obese horses in this country than starving ones!
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15kg of hay, is a lot more than 15kg of haylage. Haylage can be up to 50% water. Whereas hay is very little water typically 85% dry matter.

15kg of hay is loads.

15kg of haylage may be fine, or not depending on how wet it is / how big your horse is.

Ask how much would charge for extra, and if allowed.

Some yards charge a huge amount extra for a small amount of extra hay (way above cost price).
Others will let you have extra at what it costs them.

Assuming 14kg of the haylage is enough for most horses, at this yard, it does sound fairly sensible. Limiting it so not wasted. Assuming can buy more if need to. Better yards are run as financially viable. Rather than all the small horses subsidising the bigger horses.
 
Depends a lot on how many hours in, what the grass is like, how much hard feed can be given, can you supplement with haylage you buy/tub of chaff/grass etc.
 
There's one near me which only gives 8kg and 1 bale of shavings / week. It's a question of what's the total price and if you are allowed to buy in from outside or if the yard charges a lot or a reasonable amount to top up forage if necessary.
 
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