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Post by angie on Nov 9, 2007 17:41:39 GMT -5
Please help.
I am looking for hay..
I am located in Mokena IL
I will to pay up to $4.00 a bale.
If you have more that 20 bales I would need it delivered as my truck will only carry 20.
Looking for a grass or alfalfa mix, please no staight alfalfa..
Thanks!
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Post by fancyhorse on Nov 9, 2007 17:49:26 GMT -5
You can buy some crap hay over in California for $10 a bale. Gez, I'd KILL for $4.00 a bale.
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Post by angie on Nov 9, 2007 18:03:13 GMT -5
Oh boy at $10.00 a bale I think I would die of a heart attack! If anyone can help me please !!!!  |
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Post by alisonph on Nov 9, 2007 19:27:04 GMT -5
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Post by angie on Nov 9, 2007 23:23:48 GMT -5
alison you rock!
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Post by Lisann on Nov 10, 2007 9:35:01 GMT -5
Check out www.craigslist.com for your area, too. Not sure you can find any for $4/bale this year. |
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Post by angie on Nov 10, 2007 12:32:19 GMT -5
thanks Lisann
I will take any and all help I can get...
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Post by Dawn on Nov 13, 2007 9:28:26 GMT -5
hay up this way (mid michigan) is selling at the auctions 4-5 dollars a bale. (good horse hay and/or alfalfa) but at the local sales there are buyers from other states buying everything they can to fill a semi each week and taking it south to sell. Makes it tougher on us locals since they will run the prices up something fierce. Good for the farmers though, they have had a couple bad years and guess they deserve a bonus now and again. Farmings a pretty thankless job...
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Post by Kim on Nov 13, 2007 12:00:13 GMT -5
I wish you were closer to me! Our BO is selling GORGEOUS hay for right around $4 a bale. They're BIG bales though.
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Post by angie on Nov 14, 2007 12:03:18 GMT -5
Yeah I am still looking... I would even take oat hay as long as the oat heads were still attached... I need something... I got a few bales for $6.00 but at that price I could only get a handful... I keep praying that I will find something before the snow flies... |
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Post by Enola on Nov 15, 2007 11:08:48 GMT -5
There are a lot of options these days to help stretch your hay supply..... Last winter I 'only' fed 5 round rolls of hay to 3 horses. With regular worming and shelter from the weather they did just fine. No weight loss and two feedings a day, just like the rest of the year.
Try adding these ingredients to your horse's diet and he will be fine ......
Beet pulp
Alfalfa cubes (or pellets if you prefer)
Hay stretcher (bought at Tractor Supply in a pellet form)
10 % sweet feed
Black Oil Sunflower Seeds
and a horse mineral
salt block available at all times, as well as a source of water that does not freeze
And my very favorite Supplement, SOURCE
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Post by angie on Nov 15, 2007 21:59:11 GMT -5
Beet pulp, the horses will NOT touch it I have tried several times..
They are on a sweet feed 12% once aday now, we are not grain people..
Salt/mineral blocks in every stall already.
Can you please tell me more about hay stretcher? is it like horse chow?
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Post by Enola on Nov 16, 2007 8:39:59 GMT -5
Angie, have you tried introducing beet pulp to them gradually ? Another thing, if you are feeding them all the hay they want now, of course they may not want to touch the beet pulp  I am not saying that they need to be 'starving' to eat the beet pulp. But, the beet pulp is aimed at being a replacement for the hay that you cannot find at a decent price. Feeding the beet pulp will literally allow you to feed them a flake or two of hay two times a day instead of a bale apeice every day ;D Something else that I didn't mention in my other post...... I put the beet pulp, alfalfa cubes and the supplements in a bucket and add warm water, after soaking for 30 minutes or so, I add the rest of the ingredients and stir well.  By the time I feed it to my horses, it looks like something that has already been chewed up and swallowed, but they love it You asked for more information about the hay stretcher.... It is a pelleted form of hay, probably grass hay, it looks like a light colored rabbit pellet. I buy mine at Tractor Supply, but have heard that Southern States dealers carry it also. And it is labled, HAY STRETCHER |
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Post by Enola on Nov 16, 2007 8:46:06 GMT -5
I forgot to mention, I would also kill for $4 a bale hay, since hay is nonexistant in our area this year !
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jan
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Post by jan on Nov 29, 2007 23:53:00 GMT -5
hay in texas is cheap this year, 2.50 to 3.00 per bale last year it was 10.00 to 12.00 this is coastal hay
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I am not saying that they need to be 'starving' to eat the beet pulp. But, the beet pulp is aimed at being a replacement for the hay that you cannot find at a decent price.