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- Subject: Re: Winter Pasture Care
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.175103.1@stsci.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov17.220836.5144@synapse.bms.com> <18NOV199208491326@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu> <1992Nov18.190311.24144@piston.detroit.ingr.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:51:03 GMT
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- > In article <18NOV199208491326@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
- broy@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Barbara Roy) writes:
- > (Much stuff deleted)
- >> I feed big round
- >> bales all winter in a 3 acre lot, so the horses get a little running around
- >> room even in the winter.
-
- In article <1992Nov18.190311.24144@piston.detroit.ingr.com>,
- ferricpl@piston.detroit.ingr.com (Pat Ferrick) writes:
- > I don't meant this as a flame, but I was under the impression that feeding
- > horses round bales is not especially healthy for them. The barn where my horse
- > (more stuff deleted)
- > over this practice. They are notorious for mold, which can upset the digestive
- > tracts of some horses. I believe round bales are meant for cows who do not
- > seem to be as sensitive.
- > Has anybody else found this to be true?
-
- We feed round bales when the pasturage gets thin, but with as many horses as
- we have where I board, I don't think the hay gets a chance to mold. We get a
- weekly delivery, and there is never any of the previous bale left (we have to
- feed out regular bales sometimes toward the end of the week). It occurred to
- me that maybe you meant the hay started out mouldy, but since so much of
- Maryland is "horse country", I think the round bales start out as good quality
- hay. We've not had any problems, anyway.
- (Pat is right about cows tolerating lower quality hay; one of my co-workers
- was a hay farmer in Florida. As she got less help in the haying operation,
- she switched her market from horse-quality hay to cow-quality.)
-
- Rosalie
-