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It's wet.   :-)  A horse that REALLY eats a lot (I know mine can, because I've weighed what they eat) can eat up to about 40 lb of dry hay in a 24-hour period, and they have about 48 hours' worth on board.  Still, that's 80 lbs of dry hay, but it's mixed in a slurry with a lot of water.  (And that mix contains a whole lot of e-lytes, too--do the math on the amounts of K+, Na+, Ca++, Cl-, etc. in that much hay!)

 

Heidi

 

PS:  I don't think I've ever seen a 200-lb round bale.  All the round bales I've seen have been closer to 2000 lb...  But when you think of an 80-lb grass bale, it is easy to imagine it all chewed up and sitting in there, soaked up in a bunch of water....

I'm just curious about the hind gut holding 150 to 200 lbs of hay.  Do you mean a combination of roughage and liquid?  I'm just trying to get around the picture of my horse standing next to a 200 lb round bale....taller than he is....and having that inside him.  I'm not trying to be a smart a** (I'll leave that to the rogue donkey).  I may have missed something in a previous posting.  I am enjoying this discussion about feeding.

 

Chip

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