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> This message is from: Melinda melinda.schumac...@gmail.com
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> Does anyone have experience with cutting up round bales into manageable
proportions such that horses could be fed individual controlled portions? I
recently helped a fr
This message is from: "Lois Anne Starr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi All:
We feed round bales mainly because my back won't take stacking the squares
anymore. The feeder is on the lee side of the shed and I keep it tarped
mostly because the wind will blow it away, although this
This message is from: "kate charboneau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At hubby's insistence we feed exclusively from round bales. We purchase
only enough small square bales to cover the events we do each year. We
have 3 Clydesdales and an Arab that are out in the big pasture with a
This message is from: "Debby Stai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have several reasons why I don't like to feed round balesespecially if
they just sit out in the weather and are not under coverthey get wet, they
get nastyI also have two that would just stand there an
This message is from: "jgayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
One person just mentioned moving round bales and I remembered the horror
stories of fjords and other horses who have died from this hay.
BOTULISM! For heaven's sake be cautious. I am dealing with possum
sickness EPM
This message is from: "Janne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
All our fjords get free choice round bales all winter long, unless they come
inside and get fed from sq. bales. Only in the coldest and windy weather.
Fjords love it outdoors, but of course they have shelters. Our hay is natural
aid it wonderfully when you explained the feeding of round bales.
It really does depend on the age, teeth, and each individual on whether or not
they can free feed round bales or just hay in general. I also am the weekly
condition feeler! In the winter with their wooly coats..you can be deceived
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I use round bales year round out in the pastures for our guys. I haven't had
any problems with them at all. Robyn in MD
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Free feeding a fjord? One fjord here, before he was bought by my friend,
was kept with several appaloosa types where they free fed round bales. He
became terribly obese, lost any hint of "waistline", looked like a huge
saus
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Hi Everyone-
Speaking of keeping Fjords at home, I know there was a discussion a while
back about the use of round bales of hay. I wonder how many of you use these,
or another method, or free feeding your horses?
o are new
and don't keep their balance well.
Round bales we have fed them for over ten years with no problems of course
we only get the ones that have been stored inside. This year our vet did
suggest botulism shots for all and she also uses round bales.
For the skinnies needing weight I
This message is from: "Oscar and Shirley Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I thought I would add my imput to the round bale discussion. Several years
ago we were unable to fill our barn with the square bales we normally use.
After locating enough round bales to finish the seaso
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This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...There may be some confusion between dry round bales and round haylage
bales? My understanding is that the botulism danger comes only with the
haylage bales
I think haylage bales ha
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If you want to damage your horses' lungs, then go ahead and feed round
bales.
I used to think round bales were great because they could nibble at them
all day like they were grazing pasture. The problem is, though, they
stick there heads in the
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I don't feed round bales of hay, but I do feed round bales of cornstalks
-- the horses eat the leafy parts and bed down in the stalks. I do check
the stalk bales for mold and would not feed them if they were moldy.
I read recently -- in one of my
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Problems of mold and dust. My 22 year old has developed a cough from the
dust and from the light blue mold that forms on damp bales of hay. There
probably is also mold in the stalls from our usual wet winters. Due to
eyesight problems I was
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To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com
Subject: Re: Feeding Round Bales
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Hi Anne
Since we here on our farm make round bales, I would like to tell you my
experience with them. I don&
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To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com
Subject: Re: Round bales
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:08:22 -0800
This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There may be some confusion between dry round bales and round haylag
This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There may be some confusion between dry round bales and round haylage bales?
My understanding is that the botulism danger comes only with the haylage
bales. Right? I think most of the people who have replied are referring to
the dry
This message is from: "Janne Myrdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Greetings from ND.
We bail all our own hay, natural praire grass, no fertilizer ever, and all
our fjords eat off round bales all winter as does the QH as well. I have
never had any problems with it, sickness nor fat. The
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Hi Anne
Since we here on our farm make round bales, I would like to tell you my
experience with them. I don't know all the illnesses that can occur when a
horse injests dusty or mouldy hay or how to protect against this, so I will
leave that for o
This message is from: Vivian Creigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When I was in Aiken training with Larry Poulin for 5 weeks the farm where he
was located fed round bales, in fact round bales were fed at nearly every
farm I went to. I had misgivings about putting round bales in with my three
Fjord
This message is from: "Anneli Sundkvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I board my fjord. Most of his diet consists of round bale haylage (the
horses have been given shots to avoid the most common form of botulism) that
comes from the same farm where the barn is. Cider has actually spent some
months whith fr
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Anne you will hear some horror stories about round bales here but I will let
others tell it. Jean
Jean Walters Gayle
[Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter"
Occupied Germany 1946 To 1949 ]
http://users.tec
t give them free choice hay, unless it is -40 or so..and they usually
comes out of those cold spells fat!
One winter all I could get was round bales (Timothy/brome), and I had to
peel it off and portion it out. No I wouldn't free feed my fjords round
bales...or square bales! One family
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> Hello, Fjord Folks!
> Here's a first-time communication from a recent
> subscri
This message is from: "Anne Weyker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello, Fjord Folks!
Here's a first-time communication from a recent subscriber to the Digest: do
any of you feed round bales to your Fjords, free choice? Some horse owners
absolutely pale at the suggestion; others are
This message is from: "Anneli Sundkvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My horses are fed haylage from round bales. The horses have annual shots to
protect them from botulism. This is not a 100% protection to all forms of
botulism though. The risk is not very high anyway. I've red t
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> Steve, what about botulism and the round bales?? I thought this
> was a
> no no with horses?! Jean
Jean,
Good point. Thanks for bringing that up.
I forget about botulism sometimes because we don't have a problem with it
in this
This message is from: Alison Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Jennifer,
I feed round bales, but I stand the bales up on end, usually with a pin,
a rope and the ATV. I then fork the hay off the bales into the trailer
behind the ATV and take it to the horses. I could probably get away
with p
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Steve, what about botulism and the round bales?? I thought this was a
no no with horses?! Jean
Jean Gayle
Aberdeen, WA
[Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter"
Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ]
http://
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Jennifer and/or Michael
The good thing about round bales is that they unroll like a roll of
toilet paper. So you don't have to set the whole thing in the pen with
them. Just pull some of it off and feed it like you would a square bale.
In the p
This message is from: "michael johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looking for opinions on round bales. Due to poor quality of local hay this
year (weather conditions created dusty hay) we have purchased several round
bales to try out. When I inquired to several people on how they
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