Re: Born and rasised on a Qtr Hoss ranch

Posted by ShepFL on March 03, 2005 at 06:22:43 from (155.14.78.39):

In Reply to: Re: Born and rasised on a Qtr Hoss ranch posted by caseyc on March 02, 2005 at 18:22:11:

Caseyc -
It is one of those danged if you do, danged if you don't. Growing up it was tuff to keep the horses fed and make ends meet etc. When times got lean had to make $$ hauling "canner horses" up to Canada. I did not see enough potential $$ in horses so I shied away.

Welcome to the 1990's - people got more $$ than common sense and horses are everyone's passion. Wishing I had some more property to make pasture land. Now in the past few yrs. been looking at making 45# square bales to sell to the horsey crowd. They are even more "well-heeled" and always looking for good quality hay.

Square bales at ~45# allow the Mz. Horsey to carry the bales to feed her herd plus she gets braggin' rights within her circle of friends by carrying her own bales.

Odd thing here in the South - hay is sold by the bale and not by the ton. At 44 bales/ton x $5.00 that is about $220 a ton vs. $130-140 a ton. There is some potential money.

I do like them iron horses though, no fences to mend, no vet bills, no state to state health inspections. Care and feeding consists of fuel and oil.
Today,

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