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I'm in Georgia and all fall and winter have been paying $8 a bale (40 - 50 pound).  I feed 2 flakes both morning and night and a  pound or so of alfalfa in the evenings when its cold

I get straight alfalfa, nice, for $110 a bale for a 1000 pound bale.  I think its trucked in from Wisconsin.

 

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Kathy

 

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> > Well, just for comparison.....I live outside Louisville, Kentucky. Have three 
> > horses on approximately 9 acres - almost all grass pasture. Grass grows and 
> > stays green till begining of December, starts growing again in April. I don't 
> > feed much hay so I buy in small quantities from a local feed store. Monday I 
> > bought 10 bales of really nice orchard grass - 50lb bales- at $10.50/bale. In 
> > December the same bales were $10/bale. The feed store is getting this hay from 
> > northern Ohio. My horses get a flake each in the morning and a flake in the 
> > evening. The rest of the time they are on pasture eating the brown grass. No 
> > grain. 
> > 
> > Roxanne 
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