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Re: [RC] forages-and now question - Karen Sullivan

GAK!!!  Yes, the yearly scramble to buy hay for the year.....and get it in
my barn!!!

Here is what I have been able to buy so far.....

77 bales 2-wire permanent pasture grass (Orchard grass?), about 60 lb bales,
delivered and stacked in
my barn $5 a bale (pricey this year due to steel and gas prices rising).
Grown by guy who claims great
pride in his hay and claims he cuts it at height of maturity, when vitamin
and fiber content are highest.

20 bales same guy mix of oat, rye and alfalfa., same price.

45 bales 3 wire, heavy suckers (130 lb) bale clean red oat.....full of
oat....had to pick up and stack myself, ugh
$7.50 a bale which is a good price.  In Calif., oat hay is NOT considered a
grass hay....but Oat hay.  The mice do
get into it mid winter, so I feed it first.

pure alfalfa is $9 a bale, they load, I stack.....3wire, more heavy
suckers.....130-140 lbs.....very clean and great and
probably very high protein, from Oregon.....I have 12 of those.

am waiting for a local grower.....they have 3 wire alfalfa/rye grass for $8
delivered and stacked.....have to check it out
tonite......since I already have nice grass hay I am not that interested in
this, but may buy some for picky horse.

Two of my horses; the Arab/paint and mustang will mostly be fed the
grass...grass mix and oat hay.......my daugher
picky, hard keeper Arab gets any and all she will eat.

Okay, some folks in the past have grown what they call forage mix...which is
usually mix of rye, oat and beardless wheat.
I am not comfortable buying hay that is really high in grain content (would
rather supplement with grain if I need to...and make sure I am covering the
bases in terms of FIBER).  Another friend just bought a field of oat hay
that matured at under a ft.   The bales are mostly fine stem, a little leaf,
and loaded with oat!). Seems this would be a really hot hay!!!

Okay, have been wanting feedback on the following.....my grass hay guy was
complaining about another farmer who cut
his grass hay while it was really green and no seed heads.  He said people
buy it because it is so green; horses like it, etc.
But, he said it is mostly cellulose at that stage.....no vitamin content and
low fiber......can some experts here comment on
when and how to cut grass hay?  The stuff I get from the guy who claims he
knows how to farm......is usually borderline
turning brown......

Thanks, Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kristi Schaaf" <iluvdez@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] forages


Nicole wrote:
All that said, I'm extremely jealous of anyone with
really really nice oat/wheat/barley.  Also of anyone
who can get Timothy at a price that doesn't break the
bank.

Ahhh....finally a perk to living in Iowa. I just
bought 400 bales of the most luscious
timothy/brome/orchard grass hay. It smelled so good
that I wanted to sleep on it overnight. It was
$124/ton (50 lb bales at $3.10/bale). Most hay around
here is alfalfa so I'm very very happy to have a
supplier of grass hay. Now I can sleep easy knowing
that my boys have a whole nother year's supply of nice
hay stored away. Kristi iluvdez at yahoo dot com




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Re: [RC] forages, Kristi Schaaf