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Not ideal, but is it possible for you to purchase grass hay *for your
horse* and deduct the price from board?  

Another idea - 
How many people board there?  Make a few flyers about the dangers of
feeding grass clippings - back up your statements with facts from research
centers - and perhaps the other boarders will help you pressure the owner
into providing hay.  Probably will not make you popular with that
particular boarding operation, but might buy you enough time to find a more
suitable place.  (I'm thinking that this may be a symptom of other
practices you wouldn't like.)

But, FWIW, I have used a hand scythe to cut about a wheelbarrow full of
grass at a time and given it to my horses stuck in drylot.  It wasn't
around long enough to ferment, and wasn't all bruised like mowed grass. 
Took a lot of work - but I just wanted to wean them from hay onto grass
while my fence was being built.  It would take an awful lot of grass to
replace their hay!  

Good luck,
Rosalie


--- Christy Hawes <brattyblond@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need to know what to say to the stable owner...... I got back from a
> trip 
> to Montana to find that they had started feeding my mare grass clippings
> 3 
> days ago since they ran out of grass hay and I had specified no alfalfa.

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