Eating hay

[solomon]

Pete comes in for a haynet when I go to yard you can tell winter on its way he is making net disappear in double quick time.

[brigadier]

Oh dear, sounds expensive!

[solomon]

No it's included in my livery costs luckily. Unless you think £216 a month for hay and his stable and field is dear!

[racaille]

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Five years ago I was paying 360€ full livery. Good God, was I? What took me so long to go it alone?

[ernieburt]

Ooh I would want a lot if hay for that!!!! Livery For 1 plus 4 big round halage is the same and feeds 2. 60x30 all weather and cross country course/off road (5 Mile) included.

[scattymare]

My new yard does hay at £8 per week for night time haynet. Field hay is bought in seperately at beginning of winter and you can pay for extra if for example going to a show so need a heynet for lorry.
Livery £128 pcm for stable (in barn), grazing, small indoor and large outdoor. I think it's very reasonable (hence the move!)

[haffyfan]

Mine are eating it like theres no tomorrow. I've used 4 round bales already, can see me having to buy more after christmas as only 10 left now not including the one we're on.

[fimacg]

I am very lucky that I still have too much grass. mine have beenonly just been allowed into the final section of the bottom field at the weekend and I will try to keep them down there until January, if the bad weather starts to hit then I will move them into the home field which hasnt been gazed since my hay was cut so plenty of grass in that still. Roly still has 2 sections of her postage stamp field to be released too.

Consequently I have only used up 1.5 big bales of Haylage, but have had to give four bales away to my neighbour for his cows as birds had pecked tiny holes in the plastic and mould was starting to grow through, I have four left which should see me to Feb if they are all OK. Roly has gone through probably less than 10 small bales of hay so far.