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Re: [RC] Pounds of Hay - oddfarm

I feed 9 horses between 5-7 bales of hay per day that weigh between 55-70 lbs each. So each horse gets between 30-40 +/- lbs of hay per day. I feed orchard/alfalfa and that is all they get. No suppliments, no bagged feed. (except the 23 year old and what ever horse I take to a ride, in those cases they will get Ultium) It's been working well for the past 12 years or so.

When I am at a ride, I will put a whole bale in the pen with the horse that I am riding. If it gets cold at night, they will eat the whole bale, and then drink lots of water. That's a good thing.
Lisa Salas, The Oddf aRm
----- Original Message ----- From: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:13 AM
Subject: [RC] Pounds of Hay


In the Eleanor Kellon article she metions that horses can get their
daily maintenance needs of chloride from 8.5 pounds of hay or 5.5 pounds
if supplemeneted with enough salt to meet their sodium needs.

Since I feed my horses between 20 and 30 pounds of hay a day (it takes
them about four days to go through about a 100+ pound bale of grass plus
the 5-8 pounds of alfalfa that he gets on top of that) I am having
trouble seeing how this would be a problem.  At endurance rides, in
addition to having a few days worth of hay in their gi tract, they will
consume more than they normally do at home.

Am I the only one who feeds this much hay to my horses?

kat
Orange County, Calif.



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