How To Visually Tell If Your Horse Hay Is Good Or Bad
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2019
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I thought it might be helpful to show how to visually tell if your hay may be good or bad. Mostly we're looking for green but it's important to also consider how much leaf and stalk there is. We also don't want to see dusty hay or moldy hay and the flake should break apart easily. Overly brown, stringy, dusty or stuck together hay flakes are generally not good for horses.
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I had to try three different feed stores in my area to find good quality Coastal/Orchard hay. I found it, it is green, bright and soft, and my horses are happy.
So happy Roni is recovering.
Thank you 🥰
Thank you, I've been trying to find a guide like this for a while now. Surprising how difficult it is to find clear information about hay quality.
My pleasure
Thanks Graeme,Love the time you spent looking after your gorgeous Horses 🐎🐎 And the Bale Information is Great 💞
Thank you so much Christine 😊
I learned to detect mold by the smell and look of the hay.
Very smart and useful !
For anybody else, mold is usually white/grey and the bale will stick together because it has been wet and it fuses together sort of. Some is very dusty though and just falls apart, but you'll still see the white/grey bits all over the place.
The time you give to your Precious Horses welfare is Awesome 🐎. You're One of the Best Graeme.Thank you 🌹 so much for that very enlightening Video.
Thank you very much
@@StableHorseTraining Thank you Graeme for taken the time to reply 🌹
You are very welcome Thomas. Thanks for all the comments and support
bloody hell, out of all things it turned out the prob was with the hay.. i feel your frustration, i would be pissed too!
That is the general opinion based on the diagnosis by the vet. Had to be sure, can't solve the problem effectively without gathering as much info as possible.
You give such a good care to your horses. Hay is vital when an herbivore cannot graze. 90% of my rabbit food was premium hay 24 h a day as in herbivores, digestive track must never stop moving. She almost died of an ileus once (gut blocked generating deadly fermentations) and our savvy vet saved her from death. On a small scale compared to horse, hay was very dried, green and smelling so good, with stalks, leaves, flowers, seeds etc, a complete nutriment necessary for a good transit and dental abrasion.
You can tell by the way you have been since Roni got sick (a little stressed) that you love you're horses very much, hopefully now Roni has been to the vets he will continue to get better. X
Yes they are definitely well loved
Stable Horse Training thank you for keeping us updated with everything, give him a scratchy scratch from me x
@@happylady2747 Will do!
Was watching staff filling haybags yesterday. Couldn't help myself, it looked like someone put a match to the hay and it was smoking. Imagine that is your job handling dusty (mouldy? Old?) hay and then, unquestioning, feeding it to the poor horses depending on you? I find it hard not to despair. My ray of sunshine is your lovely channel shining a light on good practice.
Handling moldy hay can't be good for anyone in the supply chain.
I got 2 bales of bad hay . It’s now on my burn pile.
I can accept some bad bales here and there for sure. It's going to happen, but not the amount we have. It's getting worked out though, we have a great hay guys around here.
It's really, really hard to tell on round bales. The outdside looks green, but once it's opened up...ughh..money down the drain and here in Texas a medium sized round bale is $100.00. I guess I'll have to start buying square bales again, but that's even more expensive with 4 horses. I really don't know what to do. When we first started... round bales were good and green and you just can't find it anymore. Bad year.
I agree. We never buy them although I know they're cheaper by the weight. In the end though, it can be more expensive than just getting good hay that horses don't waste at all. The cost of waste can be high.
@@StableHorseTraining // so true. You've really helped me make my decision. Back to good square bales. Thanks for the great video because I have been thinking about this for weeks, and then you come out with a video. Truely appreciated
Answered my question. I'll be returning my hay because it looks like your bad hay.. Thanks so much for the video. Only thing I wish is that you would have kept the hay still a little longer for viewers to get a good look at it.
Well... it is a video and you can just pause it maybe? Bad hay is really obvious, if it doesn't look like the good hay then it's likely bad. It will smell, feel moist maybe (all hay should be bone dry), and be really lackluster in color.
Hay is such a torment on a regular basis! Sorry to see others are having the same issues I am having. My goats won't even eat it when I get a bad batch... such an expense and a waste.
I agree. Yes, there are times when bad hay comes in but I stopped ordering from those guys for now as another supplier stepped up to the plate and hasn't failed me yet.
Looks like nice Timothy hay from your vet. Even your bad hay looks better than my good hay. I will say that i did have a lot of waste this year. Good idea on a video for my channel. Not that I’m trying to copy you, but you know what they say, imitation is the greatest form of flattery. 😁
The new stuff that the old stuff got replaced with is just night and day. Zero waste again. Back to normal. I can't stand when horses waste hay, it's very expensive. And thanks for the flattery!
I have the same problems but on a smaller scale for my Guinea pigs hay sometimes. 😬
ah yes... that happens too
Glad I'm not the only one having hay issues..outside looked good...inside horrible
Yup, it happens... sometimes the hay supplier doesn't even know and then they have to go back to the grower with it.
Weird question, but would it be worth it to buy or lease a property to grow really good quality hay? Perhaps could offset some expense by selling surplus. You would have so much more control over quality and consistency, save $ on vet bills, etc.
I don't think so..
I would be curious to know what actually makes some hay good and some hay not so good. Is it in the planting (certain seeds are better than others?) or in the farming of the field (different types of equipment used).
Weather, watering schedule and time of cut and timing of bailing after the cut. Very important to have good dry airy storage as well. Good soil... All the usual gardening stuff in a way.
@@StableHorseTraining Thanks so much for all of your responses. I really appreciate your efforts!
Hay like that, Graeme, is best mixed with horse manure, turned under, and used as fertilizer.
Great advice, but I gave it back to the supplier and got replacement hay today. All good now :)
Hay tossing by the herd is like a bad Yelp review!
hahaha, yes
Even I can tell on my phone the difference between the good hay and the crappy hay. This must be hugely frustrating.
Very
Getting crappy hay is also costly, I picked up a trailer full of hay, not last season but the one before that, it had some good bales and some really shitty ones, even black spots inside. Basically had to replace all this hay at my cost. You know what he said when I complained lol he said I should have opened them to dry them out 😏. 200 bales 😂 who has that kind of space ?
I've found a very good source for hay since looking to replace the other ones, Im hopping they have enough next year to sell.
Ugh that sounds very frustrating! So glad you have it solved now.
Goats wont eat it either. Its so frustrating paying good hard earned money for bad hay
I agree with that!
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Got your email! Thanks for contacting me I have responded via email
Probably so much lost to fires floods and drought having trouble producing enough. Just like the produce department in human food stores. Scary hope you got some better hay.
Its Horrid how crap happens to really good & nice people. Even knowledgable ones !!!
It’s true. For hay sometimes is horse to horse preference or you check a few bales but some are good and others awful.
I wouldn't eat that hay if I was a horse.
Some of our horses are it happily. It’s interesting. They did well on it, and ate lots, some tolerated it, then the extremes wouldn’t touch it at all. Every horse is so different
So greenie is good, brown is garbage. Right?
It's generalizing, but for the most part yes. It's important to look at the consistency, amount of weeds, age, cut and then figure out the averages of how many bales have flaws like rotten edges or garbage/animals in them (dead of course). Mostly though it's important to have hay that is green, brown means it's burnt from too much sun and/or was already dead when cut and baled.
@@StableHorseTraining thanks a lot for the info!
All that hay looks good compared to the dusty dirty crap of garbage my landlord brought in. I'm sick and so are the animals. Omg lord no please keep me and these animals safe.
that's too bad.. it's hard when bad hay is delivered but to me is unacceptable and I just work to fix it