Lucked out on hay!

horseloverinVA · 09-05-2008, 11:06 AM

Boy did I luck out. I have already bought 200 good bales of mixed grass hay from my regular hay guy. I paid $3.00/bale for those and he delivers them as needed because I can only store about 30 bales at a time. He's great ad I felt so good about that already.

Well I called a number that I found in a local paper for round bales. The guy is only about 3-4 miles from my house and has good fresh cut orchard/fescue/clover. I have no broodmares so no worries on the fescue. They are around 500lbs each. He will sell them to me for $15 each delivered or $12 each if I pick them up. He has horses and feeds it to them, he says it's excellent for horses. I'm going to check it out tonight and see if I like it.

I'm still stunned at the price, most is $40 minimum these days.

Freedomnchrist · 09-05-2008, 11:07 AM

I am feeding my two mares fescue....and they are eating it up!

horseloverinVA · 09-05-2008, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Freedomnchrist

I am feeding my two mares fescue....and they are eating it up!

My horses love the fescue, and with no preggo mares I have no worries!

Hideaway · 09-05-2008, 11:54 AM

Send that hay luck to me. I'm having a terrible time.

horseloverinVA · 09-05-2008, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Hideaway

Send that hay luck to me. I'm having a terrible time.

Really...I had to get some shipped down from PA last year, it was awful here last year, things are looking better this time around though.

Hideaway · 09-05-2008, 12:19 PM

They're greedy here. $6 per bale. My hay guy cut his first cut a month late and not sure if he'll get a second. The first is sooo stemmy my horses protest and waste most of it.

**gbarmranch** · 09-05-2008, 12:35 PM

We are locked into 800 excellent heavy tight square bales of orchard grass for $3.00 - stored and paid for as we pick it up..

Plus, $30 for huge round bales of the same hay - that is delivered - 14 bales at a time.. stored inside until we need them..

Hopefully this will get us comfortably through the year - unlike last year, where we spen most of it hunting for good hay, and paying twice what it was worth..

pvf · 09-05-2008, 02:40 PM

Hideaway I wish you were closer... We actually sold hay this year..

Hideaway · 09-05-2008, 02:49 PM

Ohhhh I so need hay and good stuff! I dislike the greedyness that's here.

Someday I'll have a farm and grow hay and straw. I mentioned this to my boyfriend and that I'll make an excellent housewife.

You know the kind that has her house in the barn, doesn't cook or do laundry .. I can bake and cleaning is ok ..

Not that I plan on that either.

Tobiesmom · 09-05-2008, 08:35 PM

Hay prices are still so crazy. So much of our alfalfa hay in SW Kansas is shipped out that the prices stay up regardless of supply. Small twine tied bales (around 80-100 lbs each) are still running $8 per bale and round bales are $150-160. I heard a few weeks ago from one of my friends that she sold small twine tied bales at the Palomino World for $10 to $12 per bale (and she had people lined up to buy).

Thekidsmum · 09-06-2008, 07:24 AM

I buy good cheap hay whenever and wherever I am. It is hard to find so I don't pass it up.

KrisRN2005 · 09-06-2008, 07:35 AM

My hay guy raised his price twice this summer with gas prices

I went from 6.50 a bale to 7.50

we just found a place we can get quality hay timothy/orchard mix for 5.00 a bale. we have to pick it up but it's well worth it!
what I wouldn't give for my own hay pasture

Raaslita · 09-06-2008, 11:19 AM

Ok I need to move to your locations.....I am still paying $13.00 -15.00 per 110 pound bale....2-3 months ago it was almost $18-19 per bale..And I buy from a grower locally..

I dont have any need for round bales, nor could I probably find them out here...Any of you want to ship me some of your hay???

I am so jealious of some of you... But I know that my prices are not the worst out there so I cant complain to much...

karenf · 09-06-2008, 01:23 PM

The San Joaquin Valley in California is in a drought and most of the alfalfa is going to large cattle operations.

There are forcasts for bales to go back to $18.00. We just bought some in North Los Angeles county for $10.00, and that is a deal these days. I am worried with 6 horses about hay prices this year.

I wish I were out where some of you are, as we have to buy hay all year in the desert.

pvf · 09-06-2008, 01:53 PM

our round bailes that we sold were 650lbs and we got between $32-$35 per bail..

Hideway you plan sounds like a good one..

prancingpony · 09-06-2008, 02:10 PM

Be careful of sellers that will deliver as needed or pick up as needed. Last year I did that and he sold them out from under me and I couldn't find hay in December.

I finally found some, but ended up paying an arm and leg for it.

This year I bought 20 800# roundbales of wonderful clean grass hay for $50 each. I am pleaesed. They are stored here and tarp covered. I never want another yr like last year!

Sunlei · 09-07-2008, 12:14 AM

That's cheap enough to build a large riding ring out of rolls. imagine that

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09-05-2008, 11:06 AM
horseloverinVA Started Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South Central, Virginia Posts: 2,173	Lucked out on hay! Boy did I luck out. I have already bought 200 good bales of mixed grass hay from my regular hay guy. I paid $3.00/bale for those and he delivers them as needed because I can only store about 30 bales at a time. He's great ad I felt so good about that already. Well I called a number that I found in a local paper for round bales. The guy is only about 3-4 miles from my house and has good fresh cut orchard/fescue/clover. I have no broodmares so no worries on the fescue. They are around 500lbs each. He will sell them to me for $15 each delivered or $12 each if I pick them up. He has horses and feeds it to them, he says it's excellent for horses. I'm going to check it out tonight and see if I like it. I'm still stunned at the price, most is $40 minimum these days. __________________ A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan. Pam Brown Last edited by horseloverinVA : 09-05-2008 at 11:11 AM.

09-05-2008, 11:07 AM
Freedomnchrist Greenbroke Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Alabama Posts: 3,312	I am feeding my two mares fescue....and they are eating it up!

09-05-2008, 11:54 AM
Hideaway Coming two Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: PA Posts: 1,935	Send that hay luck to me. I'm having a terrible time. __________________ Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History

09-05-2008, 12:19 PM
Hideaway Coming two Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: PA Posts: 1,935	They're greedy here. $6 per bale. My hay guy cut his first cut a month late and not sure if he'll get a second. The first is sooo stemmy my horses protest and waste most of it. __________________ Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History

09-05-2008, 12:35 PM
gbarmranch Administrator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tennessee Posts: 29,218	We are locked into 800 excellent heavy tight square bales of orchard grass for $3.00 - stored and paid for as we pick it up.. Plus, $30 for huge round bales of the same hay - that is delivered - 14 bales at a time.. stored inside until we need them.. Hopefully this will get us comfortably through the year - unlike last year, where we spen most of it hunting for good hay, and paying twice what it was worth.. __________________ Quality FoundationQuarter Horses http://home.earthlink.net/~vpgann Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open – Thomas Dewar

09-05-2008, 02:40 PM
pvf Regional Forums Moderator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 6,420	Hideaway I wish you were closer... We actually sold hay this year.. __________________ www.prairieviewfarms.net Raising Reg. Paints and Quarter horses

09-05-2008, 02:49 PM
Hideaway Coming two Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: PA Posts: 1,935	Ohhhh I so need hay and good stuff! I dislike the greedyness that's here. Someday I'll have a farm and grow hay and straw. I mentioned this to my boyfriend and that I'll make an excellent housewife. You know the kind that has her house in the barn, doesn't cook or do laundry .. I can bake and cleaning is ok .. Not that I plan on that either. __________________ Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History

09-05-2008, 08:35 PM
Tobiesmom Weanling Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 442	Hay prices are still so crazy. So much of our alfalfa hay in SW Kansas is shipped out that the prices stay up regardless of supply. Small twine tied bales (around 80-100 lbs each) are still running $8 per bale and round bales are $150-160. I heard a few weeks ago from one of my friends that she sold small twine tied bales at the Palomino World for $10 to $12 per bale (and she had people lined up to buy).

09-06-2008, 07:24 AM
Thekidsmum Weanling Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sunny Australia Posts: 242	I buy good cheap hay whenever and wherever I am. It is hard to find so I don't pass it up.

09-06-2008, 07:35 AM
KrisRN2005 Yearling Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 667	My hay guy raised his price twice this summer with gas prices I went from 6.50 a bale to 7.50 we just found a place we can get quality hay timothy/orchard mix for 5.00 a bale. we have to pick it up but it's well worth it! what I wouldn't give for my own hay pasture __________________ May you always be true to your best friend, today, tomorrow and always ....

09-06-2008, 11:19 AM
Raaslita Weanling Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Moreno Valley, CA Posts: 349	Ok I need to move to your locations.....I am still paying $13.00 -15.00 per 110 pound bale....2-3 months ago it was almost $18-19 per bale..And I buy from a grower locally.. I dont have any need for round bales, nor could I probably find them out here...Any of you want to ship me some of your hay??? I am so jealious of some of you... But I know that my prices are not the worst out there so I cant complain to much... __________________ Life with out a horse, is not having a life.. RIP Littlebit 1997-2008,life without you will never be the same

09-06-2008, 01:23 PM
karenf Weanling Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 493	The San Joaquin Valley in California is in a drought and most of the alfalfa is going to large cattle operations. There are forcasts for bales to go back to $18.00. We just bought some in North Los Angeles county for $10.00, and that is a deal these days. I am worried with 6 horses about hay prices this year. I wish I were out where some of you are, as we have to buy hay all year in the desert.

09-06-2008, 01:53 PM
pvf Regional Forums Moderator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 6,420	our round bailes that we sold were 650lbs and we got between $32-$35 per bail.. Hideway you plan sounds like a good one.. __________________ www.prairieviewfarms.net Raising Reg. Paints and Quarter horses

09-06-2008, 02:10 PM
prancingpony Started Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Michigan Posts: 2,428	Be careful of sellers that will deliver as needed or pick up as needed. Last year I did that and he sold them out from under me and I couldn't find hay in December. I finally found some, but ended up paying an arm and leg for it. This year I bought 20 800# roundbales of wonderful clean grass hay for $50 each. I am pleaesed. They are stored here and tarp covered. I never want another yr like last year! __________________ Breeder of fine Gypsy Sport Horses http://www.freewebs.com/faewillow/ Equine Gifts at http://www.cafepress.com/faewillow

09-07-2008, 12:14 AM
Sunlei Yearling Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 950	That's cheap enough to build a large riding ring out of rolls. imagine that