Re: [IceHorses] Re:Hay Prices
It's not just higher diesel fuel for the tractors and likewise, higher shipping costs of the hay driving the prices up, it's fertilizer prices. They are around double what they were a year ago according to my hay guy. About the only hay that shouldn't be more expensive this year is that produced on an organic farm that uses horse power and composts all their own fertilizer. : ) I can still full feed an Icelandic for around $150 a month. Glad I do not own a TB! Skye Holy moly! . . . I can't imagine spending that much per horse!And haven't I read about your horses being in a 1,000 acre pasture before You have grass year round, right? Seems like you'd have one of the lowest per month costs of any of us since you do your own farrier work too. Wow. . . I've never figured up what I spend a month on my four horses, but I'm betting it's about $200 or less, especially in the summer when the grass is in -- and $70 of that would be for Rocky's Cushings medicine.I give a scoop of rolled oats once a day when I call them in from the pasture, and I don't buy bedding. Farrier is $25 a trim per horse every 8 weeks.I'm feeding about 1/2 a 50 lb. bale of hay a day (at $4 a bale). Worming 4x a year at $3.00 to $8.00 per head depending on what kind I use and if I hit a sale. : ) That reminds me: I just did that Panacur Powerpak thing with everyone which Janice was doing at the same time. Janice -- did you notice any improvement in Jas after that treatment? -- Renee M. up in Michigan
Re: [IceHorses] Re:Hay Prices
2008/7/10 Renee Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That reminds me: I just did that Panacur Powerpak thing with everyone which Janice was doing at the same time. Janice -- did you notice any improvement in Jas after that treatment? I haven't done it, but when everyone one the list was talking about it, I suggested it to a neighbour/trainer friend who was having trouble keeping weight on one of her horses and had been having trouble for a number of years with him. She was considering putting him down. It worked wonders on him, and he's healthy and glossy now and at a perfect weight. So it DOES work. BTW...this same neighbour has a gaited morgan in for training. He looks like a lovely guy...but big... Wanda -- Thoughts become things...
Re: [IceHorses] Re:Hay Prices
In Southern Oregon we're paying $12 for 140 lb bales of grass/alfalfa mixed out of the farmer's barn - we haul. Nancy
Re: [IceHorses] Re:Hay Prices
--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Kaaren Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell me about it...our went up from $19.99 a compressed bale for timothy to $24.99 a bale and rising in one year. Ours are up a lot. Now our compressed timothy or orchard grass bales are $40. Last year they were about $30 if I can remember. Many of us here use 50lb bags of alfaflfa cubes. 8 years ago a bag of cubes was $7. Now they are $15 a bag and every week they seem to be higher. I have to change my breeding contaracts, as I have to charge more for mare feed and care. I can still full feed an Icelandic for around $150 a month. Glad I do not own a TB! Skye
