Ok you square baler folks

Never saw it before but he said his bales weighed 100# (trying to pick one up I'd say more like 150) and were tied with three strings....never saw 3 string hay before.....thought he was kidding; he wasn't. Real whoppers.

Glad my customers don't want bales that big. Too heavy for me to handle.

The bales were really well built and the contents were alfalfa. Real nice. Said he wanted to gradually get his horses off this (their normal hay) to a cheaper local grass. Wanted to do it gradually to prevent Colic.

I Didn't go into detail about the consequences of that. Course nobody around here does alfalfa. Coastal bermuda is about as close as you get and protein isn't near that of alfalfa....so it's out with the sweet feed, I guess. I'm not a horse guy.

Mark

All hay grown in AZ is Alfalfa. Not enough water for grass.

Mature equines do not need the protein, nor do they need the sugar in sweet feed.

Mark

When I feed my horses, I feed grass hay. I will feed alfalfa to lactating mares, but need to watch P to K ratios.

If I feel my horses need more than their grass hay I may put some cooking oil on alfalfa pellets.

See here's the thing- in the wild horses will get some grain from the mature seed heads they encounter in their wanderings. That grass they eat isn't 17 or 18% protein, but you know that.

Mark