This hay will be $4.25 delivered. And it won't be real high quality. It'll be safe, but relatively low-nutrition. Come winter when they need more calories, I'll be adding Bay's senior feed back into their grain mix. His senior feed is a complete feed... they'll just need the hay for something to munch.
You'll choke when you learn that the hay that was sitting there now, which is better Eastern WA Orchard grass, is $10 per bale. Now.... before you scream, they are heavy, dense, 100 pound bales, but still, it's a LOT. I am glad to be able to find local hay delivered (cuz I still don't have a way to haul it) for $4.25. They'll probably be 60 pound bales though. They ain't cheap.
There is horse quality hay available for $2-3 per bale out of the field. If we had more help (I hate loading it, and ain't got the muscle for a lot of that!) and a way to haul it, it would be a better bargain.
Some offer hay out of the field for $1/bale, but at that price, I'd be suspect that it really isn't good enough quality for horses.
GAsp!!!. Oh my.
I wonder if the pellets I use are more expensive up there because of the price of the stuff they make them with is more??
We can get high quality bales of bermuda here out of the barn for $6.00 a bale, and 2000lb round bales of high quality bermuda for 45.00.
Becky