Truck load of AWESOME, all the way from North Carolina.
Under the lights.Saturday turned into a hurricane and it was nasty all day. So Sunday Laurie and I went out for a long hack with 3 long gallops and hill work in it. It was beautiful riding weather!!!!
Yesterday was dressage and so was today. We worked on some of the basics. I got some nice square halts and quality trot. We worked on what Ann taught us to keep the energy through the corners too.
Sunday evening the truck load of awesome showed up. It was supposed to get here Monday but xmas came early for the ponies haha.
Klein mare sampling the goods, and sporting her new clip I gave her the night before. She approved.
If you could only smell this stuff! I think they should make incense out of it!!!
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In Texas, we've paid up to $110 for a bale of cow hay.. It's almost depressing to talk about what horse hay goes for now.
CHEAPER?! damn.
I live in Texas, where it's just as bad or worse... My barn's last load of hay we trucked in from Utah. Cheaper than buying it here.
Go NC hay! Haha.
I live in Norther California ( OR on top, ocean on another side, redwoods on the other!). We are currently paying $20 to $25 dollars a bale for even grass hay. Japan bought a bunch of our main hay fields where our feed stores get there hay trucked in from and planted other crops. However you can still find local growers that will sell ya it a lot cheaper but it goes fast. Most people have preorder for next year because the weather was not conducive for a good hay crop this year.
Texas here too. I still have a few weeks' worth of squares in the barn, but I refuse to buy rounds 'cause I've seen the crap they're hauling in from the East. Right now in Louisiana they are baling RICE STALKS and trucking them in as cattle feed.
Not sure where the next batch of hay will come from, but I'm sure glad to hear that you have plenty. There's nothing like a barn full of nice hay to bring a horse owner peace of mind through the winter!
upstate New York? $2.50 for a 50-60lb square bale ;)
Hay is a constant dilemma here. The quality we have been seeing is extremely variable.
Do you inoculate for botulism? My vet suggested that I do this if I were to purchase round bales. New to me. Just wondering if this is general practice.
Looks like great hay.
$22-$28 is cheap compared to the prices over here.
Becca, we're going to come en masse and mob you for hay!!! ;)
Wow, that's a lot of hay! :) But you'll be glad you've got it since the prices of hay right now are so out of control in so many places. Texas is INSANE. (I live in NY, but that's what I've heard)
lol, jenj, not to rub it in or anything, but it's only $40 for delivery and stacking of 550 bales ;D
Driving up the 395 to Reno, most of the farmlands we saw was in hay, and advertising it for sale as it was fresh cut. Can't recall the prices, but I do remember the aura of desperation to sell I got from all the ads and signs selling....
Weird that hay costs would be so high now, but I suppose fields being bought to grow other things does explain it.
With all the "buy local" hullaballoo in human foods, it's intriguing to see how that isn't sustainable when you talk about large animals. NM just isn't set up to farm bulk grasses like more rainy areas!
Glad you were able to go in to get decent feed for the babies - it does look like decent hay! I hope you have a good place to store it over winter!
Stacey, can you please contact me offline? I'd like the information for your hay supplier. jen jobst at gmail dot com (remove spaces). Thanks!
I live in Washington - on the rainy side - and we were worried about a hay shortage too, but it was because we had so much rain and not enough sunny days. Thankfully our hay person was able to get several nice cuttings anyways, but the quality is not as good as normal. We're paying $8/bale for 70lbs orchard grass, $7/bale for NICE 50lbs local grass, and $5/bale for eh local grass. We have a variety of livestock that we feed so we use a large variety of hay types. The goats LOVE the brambly stuff and the orchard, the alpacas will ONLY eat the orchard, and the horses will only eat the orchard or the higher quality stuff.
I'm not sure if any of my hay supliers ship any distance, but if anyone is interested in phone numbers for WA hay, drop me an e-mail:
hammerhorses @ gmail . com
Val, no that is only for wet stuff like haylage. Dry round bales have not been found to have it.
Jen, I'll send you an email.
Hammer...seriously?!
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