Feeding Hay Cubes
…The bag-to-bag consistency of hay cubes are usually superior to load-to-load consistency from a hay dealer. This is because hay appropriate for cubing is usually cut at the same growth…
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Understanding the Lingo when Buying Horse Hay
…of horse hay terms. Here’s some hay terms for a start on your horse hay education, courtesy of Lester Vough PhD, a forage crops specialist with the University of Maryland:…
Research on Hay Net Design
Credit: Thinkstock Researchers showed that you can mimic normal grazing behavior while at the same time reducing the amount of hay fed by using hay nets appropriately. Horses have evolved…
10 Tips for Choosing the Best Horse Hay
…For a 1,000-pound horse, that means feeding at least 10 pounds of roughage each day. Hay generally falls into one of two categories ? grasses or legumes. Legume hay, such…
Ask Horse Journal: Hay Pellets or Stretchers
…don’t know what is reliable. 1) Do hay pellets generally make a horse ?hot?’ 2) Are hay pellets more nutritious than a hay stretcher (with oat hulls, alfalfa meal, etc)’…
Make Hay Last Longer With Slow Feeding
…hay contains seven to eight times more calories than live grass. Grass is 70 to 80% water, while hay is usually around 10%. Some horses will limit their hay intake…
Hay Goes Under Cover
…that hay orderly. When you need more than one bale of hay for your trip, or when there’s already a pad of hay stalks in the back of your pickup,…
Tips on Soaking Hay for Horses
…proliferation of bacteria, possibly posing a health risk to horses eating the hay. Some horses can safely eat almost any type of hay. Other horses—those that are overweight or have…
Horse Hay Bank Resources
…Consider starting one using these existing hay banks as inspiration. The Hay Bank, Parker, Colo. www.thehaybank.com Oregon Hay Bank, Roseburg, Ore. www.oregonhaybank.org Michigan Horse Welfare Coalition Hay Bank, Lansing, Mich….
Five Ways To Stretch Your Hay Supply
With severe drought being reported across the majority of the country and an extreme shortage of the 2012 hay crop, many horse owners are unable to find hay for the…