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My usual supply of orchard + 10% alf hay
dried up recently, so I came home from the
feed store with some timothy (which I've
fed previously) and some nice clean "three
grain mix" hay.

I know this is vague without having the hay 
tested, but which would you feed to a horse 
for fattening purposes (given that the horse 
in question will seldom eat more than 15 lbs 
of *any* type of hay)?

The timothy is fine stemmed and grown up by
the OR/CA border, I believe.

The "three grain" is a fat-stemmed mix of rye, 
oat, and beardless barley. No idea where it's 
grown, but likely No. CA/OR direction. (It 
smells lovely, like cookies).

I have two fat, non-working, horses and one
working-at-keeping-his-weight-on horse training 
for Tevis.

Ideally I want the fat ones thinner and the
thin one fatter <grin>.

Thanks.

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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsietee AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, California
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