[IceHorses] survival ideas
people around here are talking like thiswinter/next spring is gonna be a hay shortage to end all hay shortages. I have been trying to be creative and come up with some ideas for survival if need be. I have a gas line easement at the end of my property outside my pasture and i am going to plant rye there, and clover and rye in all barespots. I have a large section of yard that is just weeds so my husband is gonna disk it and we are gonna plant rye. Where the gas line easement continues outside my property...It is thru land owned by the div of forestry. I think I will contact them and ask if I can do something similar to a hunting lease and plant rye there and string some temporary elect wire for grazing. I can always walk them to hand graze in the woods. but horses need so much forage! Any ideas?? I dont have a large storage area. What hay I stockpile has to be covered in tarps and by spring it is always so bad the horses will barely eat it and now they are saying we may not even have that come spring... none to stockpile. my hay man says he is four cuttings behind and it is going to be bad this winter. Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
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On 06/08/07, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: people around here are talking like thiswinter/next spring is gonna be a hay shortage to end all hay shortages. Janice, what we have done during dry years is feed hay cubes. The horses did great on them. The best part is they can take all the old mouldy hay, process it, and all the mould is killed. So it's a clean, healthy food by the time your horse gets it. I had a mostly timothy(with a bit of alfalfa) cube. Something to think about. We have a cube plant about an hour away, so we can take the trailer and load up any time we want Just an idea... Wanda
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http://www.abc.net.au/landline/stories/s805364.htm Is this intended for feeding meat-producing livestock or for horses...? There's a quote in that article I immediately noticed that I'm not sure I buy into: God never made animals to eat dry hay and grain, God made animals to eat green feed and that's all we are doing, the Fodder Factory's Peter Ryan. Did horses really evolve in areas where there is always green grass? My understanding is that horses first appeared on the American plains (although they were extinct in North America by the time Columbus arrived). I believe that grass was generally sparse in the areas they first lived, and that the practice of feeding them on lush green pastures is a man-made practice. I do believe that grain is a fairly foreign foodstuff for horses, but I'd bet much of the natural forage they found on their own (especially in winter) was more hay-like than green-fescue-like. I typically try to closely observe my horses when the grass is growing fast, so the idea of feeding them freshly sprouted greenstuffs makes me a wee bit edgy. Karen Karen Thomas Wingate, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.6/938 - Release Date: 8/5/2007 4:16 PM The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] The video every Icelandic Horse owner should have: http://IceHorses.net/video.html [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses [] IceHorses ToolBar http://iceryder.ourtoolbar.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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thats a good point Karen. here in NW fla deer eat acorns and lichens etc. i find deer tracks in my pasture every day where they come in at nite in ecstasy over a little grass. People bait up deer with sweet feed and corn and they go nuts. Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
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On 8/6/07, Robyn Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Janice, The hay shortage in Florida is so sad, I have a friend in Oklahoma who has so much hay they can't get cut all they have as they don't know where to sell it to. This is how it is for us here this year too. But a few years ago, I was afraid that I wouldn't find any, and we paid $8/small bale that year. I was ready to feed cubes. This year I found nice grass hay for $5/bale, and there's plenty of it. On that dry year tho, there ended up being enough hay to go around b/c a number of truckers brought loads in from elsewhere to sell. Janice, maybe you can rent a flatbed trailer and head out to OK to pick up a load of hay. Robyn S
