I gotta get perennial peanut for my Jas who is having a thinness
problem (oh wouldnt that be a nice thing for me!) and it is due in
next week and the man will sell it for 6 dollars a square bale if you
buy at least ten. SO thats a good deal I think... boy horses sure
love it. I will get some
I have long-term concerns about hay-supplies, and the cost of hay.
I just filled my barn last night with hay for the year at
$4.50/bale(approx 50-65 lb bales) - that is 50 cents higher than last
year - and it's a great feeling to have a full barn. I feed oat hay
and have been very happy with
Renee Martin wrote:
I am fully expecting to payat least $5 a bale for my standard grass mix, 50
lb. bales. (that's not delivered, but picked up off the wagon ourselves).-
that is 50 cents higher than lastgt; yearLast year I paid $3.75 and $4.00
(depending on the cutting)gt; . . it's a great
So I'm glad drought and high hay prices don't affect you, but they
affect us out here.
I didn't say that, Susan. The drought affected us in the southeast
seriously - last year. I said earlier that I don't ever expect to pay what
we've been used to paying for hay. Last year, we had to
--- Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What bothers me is
that the low prices horses are going for at auction
is being blamed on
drought. I don't think that's it. I think the
biggest problem that's
causing horses to go so cheaply at auction is the
fact that meat buyers
aren't
2008/5/21 susan cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's a fact out here! I paid $130/ton 2 years ago,
last year I paid $180/ton, and this year I will be
LUCKY to get away with $250/ton. Plus delivery.
Yikes! But you probably expect high feed prices anyway because of
where you live right?
I'm in the
--- Wanda Lauscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yikes! But you probably expect high feed prices
anyway because of
where you live right?
No, I would expect to pay less. We are in alfalfa
country. Every farmer/rancher grows alfalfa here. It
is a heat loving weed that requires very little water.
i felt sorry for poor karen and her pitiful grass pasture. Then she
told me she keeps it that way deliberately and its a lot of work haha.
Things are so different place to place, its sometimes hard to
understand where people are coming from, hay prices, all that. I felt
like karen was from
On 5/22/08, susan cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Wanda Lauscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yikes! But you probably expect high feed prices
anyway because of
where you live right?
No, I would expect to pay less. We are in alfalfa
country. Every farmer/rancher grows alfalfa here.
my friend sylvia has a scooter, street safe type. She says if she
leaves her little dirt road and gets onto the paved country road she
is terrified of all the cars whizzing by.
Janice
--
even good horses have bad days sometimes.
--- Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my friend sylvia has a scooter, street safe type.
She says if she
leaves her little dirt road and gets onto the paved
country road she
is terrified of all the cars whizzing by.
yea, but as I told my hubby - I'm worth more dead than
alive!
But
susan cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's the high price of EVERYTHING that's
making people give up their horses. My second job is
no longer for luxuries, it's for bills and fuel.
I think you are right Susan. It's not just gas and weather conditions that
have people
2008/5/22 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Our state has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and my
husband was jobless for 6 months last year. He has two journeyman's cards
with over 20 years of experience in his trade (tool and die and pattern
making) and he now works (happily) at
I get a pretty annoyed with these reports about the drought. We were in a
horrible
drought LAST year, but we're ready to cut our hay any time now...and it looks
like we're
all set to have the highest yield in at least five years, maybe ever. Heck,
I'm more
worried right now about getting
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get a pretty annoyed with these reports about the drought.
Actually, Karen, I think the report that was shown in that post was
from last year - I know I saw it last summer. We are definitely on
the mend in the drought
Actually, Karen, I think the report that was shown in that post was from
last year - I know I saw it last summer. We are definitely on the mend
in the drought situation but our ground water levels are still not where
they should be.
Yes, but the ground water levels in the southeast are
--- Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
e-mails are flying this year predicting
more hay shortages,
increased hay prices, etc. and that's just not
founded in fact
It's a fact out here! I paid $130/ton 2 years ago,
last year I paid $180/ton, and this year I will be
LUCKY to get away
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