Thanks for that laugh!!! I needed it!!!!I'm using more grocery store coupons and buying in bulk - eating out less and cooking at home more...
Oh wait -- you mean my horses' feed bill, not my feed bill?
Seriously, I am not changing my horses' diet at all - I really like the feed program I have them on and am not changing it at all!
Liz R.
The pellets we use are complete pellets. A horse could be fed ONLY these pellets and no hay and be fine. So, in the winter, we feed about 50/50 mix of hay to pellets where during the spring and summer, the horses get less pellets and more hay (unless they are being shown, then it is also about 50/50). We feed 2x a day, with everyone getting some pellets and some hay both times a day. We do give additional hay if the weather is particularly cold or snowy.Jill how do you use the pellets to stretch your hay? Do you feed less than 1% of hay and makeup the difference in pellets at the same pound for pound basis? Do you feed more than twice a day?
Thanks for the tip. Are they hard to wrap around a bale? My farmer is going to make smaller bales for me and I was trying to come up with a way of keeping them from wasting the hay plus not make it so easy for them to pig out on it as it is about 19% protein. I do worry that they will somehow get it loose and have it spring out on them and injure one of the horses.A tip on feeding round bales, use a hog panel!! Wrap the bale with a hog panel with bunge straps and tighten it as they eat. It makes a perfect round bale feeder and you have a lot less waste!!!
This is what I do. Except I dont wrap it all the way around. I have wood fence on two sides and then just the cattle panel on the other side. That way it is set up for 3 different pens to eat out of it. I have the big bales. I dont worry about over eatting as I have 2 big guys, 2 ponies, and 7 or 8 minis eatting off of it and its pure grass.A tip on feeding round bales, use a hog panel!! Wrap the bale with a hog panel with bunge straps and tighten it as they eat. It makes a perfect round bale feeder and you have a lot less waste!!! We have been using them for the last 4 years. They work great for the minis, the big horses can be hard on them, but with the minis we can use the panels for more than one season. The big horses tend to bend them easier but at 18-22 dollars a panel we just scrap them and buy a new one if needed!!
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