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I feed free choice from large round bales (carefully harvested, stored 
inside and presented in a feeder). I try to keep the groups at no more 
than 6 per bale and figure that a bale lasts those six a week. The bales 
weigh around 1200 lbs. The group of 3 16+ hand pregnant mares and the 
stallion finish a bale in less than a week. This winter I'm feeding 33 
horses and 40 ewes (32 lambs so far) and using 6 bales per week.   Libby

k s swigart wrote:
> In the Eleanor Kellon article she metions that horses can get their
> daily maintenance needs of chloride from 8.5 pounds of hay or 5.5 pounds
> if supplemeneted with enough salt to meet their sodium needs.
>
> Since I feed my horses between 20 and 30 pounds of hay a day (it takes
> them about four days to go through about a 100+ pound bale of grass plus
> the 5-8 pounds of alfalfa that he gets on top of that) I am having
> trouble seeing how this would be a problem.  At endurance rides, in
> addition to having a few days worth of hay in their gi tract, they will
> consume more than they normally do at home.
>
> Am I the only one who feeds this much hay to my horses?
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
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