[IceHorses] survival ideas

2007-08-06 Thread Janice McDonald
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

Re: [IceHorses] survival ideas

2007-08-06 Thread Wanda Lauscher
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

RE: [IceHorses] survival ideas

2007-08-06 Thread Karen Thomas
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

Re: [IceHorses] survival ideas

2007-08-06 Thread Janice McDonald
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

Re: [IceHorses] survival ideas

2007-08-06 Thread Robyn Schulze
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