Re: RC: Re: Horses Living Outside

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/1/00 1:17:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tracey@tbt.co.za 
writes:

<< You're really lucky with your grazing.  Ours is worth jack in winter - it's
 worse than straw.  In fact, it's thatching grass, to give you an idea of its
 nutritional value, so I prefer them to be in, munching teff at a rate fast
 enough to eat into my overdraft at a rapid rate. >>

Actually, we don't have any grazing where we are--the free feed I referred to 
was hay.  We free-feed most of our horses on the "mid-size" bales--large 
rectangular bales that weigh around 900 lbs apiece.

Heidi