Re: Feeding fjords
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah > Barbara wrote: > > on this weighing of hay. What do you all use for a scale I'm > guessing some sort of a hanging scale but would love more detail on > how you do it. Barb Midddleage Spread Eagle Creek OR I have done it a couple of ways. I first got a baby scale, which had a 25-lb capacity, and sort of a "cradle" on the top. I sometimes just laid a flake of hay on it, or put the hay into a xerox-paper box lid, or a paper grocery bag. However, that scale wasn't really robust enough for barn use---the plastic cradle eventually broke, where it attached to the scale. I now use an ordinary kitchen scale, again with 25-lb capacity. I also use a firewood carrier---a rectangle of canvas, maybe 24x48", with 2 dowels in pockets sewn on each end as a handle. I first put the empty carrier on the scale and zero'd the scale to that weight. Then, I add hay to the carrier, and put it back on the scale, adjust the hay, reweigh, iterate. Either of these types of (analog) scales might be had at garage sales. My baby scale had been sitting on the very-top shelf in the hardware store for years, and they were happy to make me a deal on it. The kitchen scale came out of my mother's estate. Marsha Jo HannahMurphy must have been a horseman-- han...@ai.sri.com anything that can go wrong, will! 15 mi SW of Roseburg, Oregon Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
RE: Feeding fjords
This message is from: Karen Keith You can get a fish scale from any sporting goods place (Walmart works). They range from the simple spring operated one to fancy electronic ones. I've had both. The electronic one didn't hold up well in an unheated barn through Colorado winters. I still have the little spring one. I hung the scale from a beam in the barn (baling twine works nicely here). Add a plastic laundry basket suspended from, again, baling twine. Fill the basket with estimated hay, hang the basket via baling twine to the hook on the bottom of the scale and -- voila! -- you've got your hay weighed. The electronic scale allows you to tare the scale with the weight of the basket. The spring one requires you weigh the empty basket and remember its weight, then subtract that number from the weight when filled with hay. As I recall, the difference in price for the convenience is the difference between about $5 and about $40. You decide. Cheers! Karen, Northern VA > Just a quick question on this weighing of hay. > What do you all use for a scale I'm guessing some sort of a hanging > scale > but would love more detail on how you do it. _ Looking for a fresh way to share photos? Get the new Windows Live Messenger. http://download.live.com/ Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Re: Feeding fjords
This message is from: jern...@mosquitonet.com when I was feeding hay out of a round bale, I discovered I was giving them about twice what they needed until I started weighing it. I took a large trash bag and cut it open, laid the hay in it and gathered both ends up to hook on the hand held scale. It was a small spring scale that you could weigh fish, or put samll animal in a burlap bag and weigh...I used it in my snowshoe hare study. it has a hook on one end and you can hang it up with the handle on the other end. It worked pretty well. Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska > What do you all use for a scale I'm guessing some sort of a hanging > scale > but would love more detail on how you do it. Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Feeding Fjords
This message is from: "Sue Clark-Sorger" I weigh all my hay, guessing weight is not one of my talents. My fjords mare, Anniken, who is worked 3-4 times a week, gets 1lb of alfalfa and 10lbs of grass hay, plus 2 cups of crimped oats with her supplements. My gelding, Paul, who gets less work, as he is still young, get no alfalfa and 9lbs of grass hay plus 2 cups of oats and supplements. They get 1 hour a day on pasture this time of year, but how long that will continue depends on our rainfall. I do feed a little more grass hay when the temperature gets below 20 degrees in the winter or if Anniken has been working particularly hard, but all in all they both keep their weight pretty level on the feed I am giving them. The weather here, while still getting down below freezing at night, is in the 70s during the day so I am off to drive my fjord. Have a great day! Sue Sue Clark-Sorger Crown Oak Fjords Sandia Park NM Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
