Just got my prices from the merchant £1.75 straw £3.50 hay and it looks grand, smells good. He has hay at £3.00 second cut from a fortnight ago, when could i start feeding that if i bought a load and stored in my pigsty?
"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened." www.northwalesarab.co.uk
The old theory used to be that hay had to be several months old before it could be fed and was better a year old. That is now know to be incorrect and the hay loses a lot of it's goodness. Nowadays it is fed as soon as you need it. I have used my hay a week after it is cut when there is no old hay left. The horses love it and I have never had a problem.
In our experience this year the first cut had more stalk and the second cut had more leaf, so I would expect the second cut to be higher in protein as the growing conditions were good in Wales during July and August - but a lot depends on whether fertilizer has been applied.
Second cut hay when to feed?
Wales
Posted - 05 Sep 2010 : 3:57:25 PM
"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened."
