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The regional differences are interesting to me.  Around here you have  
two choices... ~40# square bales, or ~1000# round bales!  Nothing in  
between.
-Sharon L. in Maine


Quoting Lisa Douglass <lisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I apologize if this is repeat information . . .
>
> We have found feeding from 3x3x8 square bales is much less expensive than
> small bales.  The hard part was finding someone who would deliver the big
> bales, but luckily a little perseverance paid off there since we found one
> farm that would.  There is also one hay farm an hour away that still allows
> people to buy directly from them, so that also really helps on cost since
> there is no middle-man-mark-up.
>
> Anyone read the John Lyon's article published a year or so ago, which spoke
> of feeding straw as an alternative?  We tried that, and the horses did eat
> it, though there was quite a bit of initial waste at first.  A local vet
> here in Colorado, who's big into nutrition, recommended wheat straw over any
> of the other straws, as it fulfills the same nutritional need of horses in
> the wild when they eat dead forage out on the range.  I never could find
> wheat straw around here, just barley.  We always feed a high quality
> vitamin/mineral supplement, so fed that with the straw, along with soaked
> beet pulp and one cup of Ultium.  We found this scenario the cheapest way to
> go in our area, while still keeping the horses healthy and fit.
>
> Lisa Douglass
> Moss Rock Endurance
> www.mossrockendurance.com
> (719)439-2472
>
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