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A lot depends on where it is grown and when it was cut. Many farmers cut 
it a little too late and from my experience timothy seems to lose it's 
palatablity if cut outside a narrow window. Also my experience is 
timothy grown in hot climates is not as palatable as that grown in 
colder climates. I've gotten timothy from Michigan that my horses would 
eat fine but some from Kentucky that they wouldn't touch.

I can get any hay I want from Ocala. Seminole feed and OBS bring hay in 
by the train load from all over to support the large horse industry 
there. But given the price of transportantion I would have to pay as 
much for timothy from Michigan as I would for alfalfa - which doesn't 
seem like a good deal. Back when I was a kid in Western Kentucky the UK 
extension was pushing timothy. We tried growing it and basically gave up 
because it just didn't do all the well in the hot weather. We went to 
orchard grass that grows well there.

Timothy is good hay and if I lived in Michigan I would use it. But 
living in the southland - I don't find it as good an option as others.

I have basically given up on timothy and if I want to feed anything but 
Tiff 44 or a little alfalfa, I will get orchard grass. My horses like 
orchard grass just fine and it does well in hot weather.

Truman

Nina Vasiliev wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I bought a ton of Timothy, and slowly changed my horses over to that 
> rather than the rye they were eating. But they don't really gobble it 
> down like they did the rye. My one gelding was trailered 3 hours round 
> trip the other day, and didn't even nibble any Timothy in the trailer. 
> He's the picky one, and has turned down timothy before, a few years 
> ago. The other two would have eaten the hay while in the trailer. They 
> all are maintaining their wt, (and then some...) But as I approach 
> competition time, I want to be sure my picky guy will eat hay at rides.
>
> So, will they warm up to the timothy eventually? Or is this a sign 
> that the hay is poor quality? I bought it from a good local feed 
> store, but I'm confused as to what's going on...
>
> My other choices from the feed store are rye, oat, "pasture grass", 
> alfalfa/orchard grass mix, and of course, straight alfalfa.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Nina Vasiliev

>


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