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Question on Hay
Hi Gayle
So glad to hear from you. And so incredibly sorry about your hay man.
RE: the oat hay. To me, as a grain, I'd want to take a really good sample, ie as many plugs as you can. Not just from one bale.
IME, if you have acceptable ESC and Starch, you can deal with the rest. Even with year old hay, as long as it's not musty/moldy as Laura said.
Hope these other great leads work out. Thanks to all for stepping up with ideas.
Nancy C in NH
ECIR Moderator 2003
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So glad to hear from you. And so incredibly sorry about your hay man.
RE: the oat hay. To me, as a grain, I'd want to take a really good sample, ie as many plugs as you can. Not just from one bale.
IME, if you have acceptable ESC and Starch, you can deal with the rest. Even with year old hay, as long as it's not musty/moldy as Laura said.
Hope these other great leads work out. Thanks to all for stepping up with ideas.
Nancy C in NH
ECIR Moderator 2003
NewEnglandEquineBalance@...
--- In EquineCushings@..., "sunshine12982000" <ourmagicboy@...> wrote:
Still like to know about the oats planted in the KY timothy. Will a test for s/s be enough to know if Sabrina can be safe on it, or is there something else like with alfalfa?
sunshine12982000
Thank you, Laura, Maggie, and Barbara. Laura, we might have to go with the year old hay, but I hate that.
Thanks for the link, Barbara. I just checked through all the listings. There's one I'm going to check out the hay. We usually try to avoid our own state's hay because we don't much favor fescue, and that's Tennessee hay, but we're in trouble.
Maggie, I'd love the report on the hay in Virginia. I've been all over the Hay Exchange. I might even have printed that listing, but I know I never called. I pulled so many. The trick is to find trucking. I'll email you so you can send me the report directly.
Thank you all again. And yes, it's a real bummer for Calvin and his family. He was only 38. Please remember his wife and kids in your prayers.
Still like to know about the oats planted in the KY timothy. Will a test for s/s be enough to know if Sabrina can be safe on it, or is there something else like with alfalfa?
Gayle and Sabrina
3/06
Fairview, TN
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ECHistory/files/Sabrina/
Thanks for the link, Barbara. I just checked through all the listings. There's one I'm going to check out the hay. We usually try to avoid our own state's hay because we don't much favor fescue, and that's Tennessee hay, but we're in trouble.
Maggie, I'd love the report on the hay in Virginia. I've been all over the Hay Exchange. I might even have printed that listing, but I know I never called. I pulled so many. The trick is to find trucking. I'll email you so you can send me the report directly.
Thank you all again. And yes, it's a real bummer for Calvin and his family. He was only 38. Please remember his wife and kids in your prayers.
Still like to know about the oats planted in the KY timothy. Will a test for s/s be enough to know if Sabrina can be safe on it, or is there something else like with alfalfa?
Gayle and Sabrina
3/06
Fairview, TN
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ECHistory/files/Sabrina/
edain_rides
Hi Gayle,
I'm writing from Baxter, TN (Putnam County). Check out the Local Sales Network (kind of like Craigs List, only it's a local site covering counties in eastern middle TN). I just checked it out, and there are many ads for hay. Some not worth much, you can tell by reading. But, there might be something that would fit the bill, and if you could find something, it's a lot closer than many of the other places you've been looking. The website address is www.golsn.com
And I am so glad to hear that Sabrina is much better!
Barbara
Baxter, TN
Sept 2007
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I'm writing from Baxter, TN (Putnam County). Check out the Local Sales Network (kind of like Craigs List, only it's a local site covering counties in eastern middle TN). I just checked it out, and there are many ads for hay. Some not worth much, you can tell by reading. But, there might be something that would fit the bill, and if you could find something, it's a lot closer than many of the other places you've been looking. The website address is www.golsn.com
And I am so glad to hear that Sabrina is much better!
Barbara
Baxter, TN
Sept 2007
--- In EquineCushings@..., "sunshine12982000" <ourmagicboy@...> wrote:
We've been having a horrible time finding good hay this year. >
Maggie
We've been having a horrible time finding good hay this yearGayle,
I al most didn't respond to you because when I mapquested the disance from your place to this hay, it said 10 1/2 hours--one way. But then I saw that you said you had called "all over the country", so...Check this out:
http://www.hayexchange.com/display_detail_hay.php?id=42849
The hay is tested and I actually have a copy of the hay analysis. If you want it, I can forward it to you. He has this Timothy/brome mix and a Timothy/OG mix too. I am pretty sure he won't deliver to you, but if you could pick it up? I know someone who bought the Tim/Brome mix and said it is very nice hay. And the test was the 603 at EA, so it would save you $50. There are other options on that hayexchange site, if you haven't already checked it out.
Good luck. Sorry to hear about your hay man--that's horrible!
Maggie and Chancey in VA
March 2011
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ECHistory4/files/maggie%20in%20virginia/
gypsylassie
--- In EquineCushings@..., "sunshine12982000" <ourmagicboy@...> wrote:
Good news on Sabrina, I know you've worked hard to get her sound. Good grief, what a horrible thing for your hay man. If the year old hay tests well, and looks good, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it, if it's been stored well and isn't musty. It will lose vit A, and E, of course but you can suppl. those, we do the E anyway, & the minerals will be stable. So if the other options don't work, I think the older stuff, if the tests are good, would be OK.
Laura K. Chappie & Beau
N.IL.2011
We've been having a horrible time finding good hay this year. .....He also had some Utah and some Ontario timothy, but he didn't tell us until we got there that it was last year's cutting. We took samples of those, also, just in case that's all we can find, but certainly, that's not desirable.Hi Gayle,
Good news on Sabrina, I know you've worked hard to get her sound. Good grief, what a horrible thing for your hay man. If the year old hay tests well, and looks good, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it, if it's been stored well and isn't musty. It will lose vit A, and E, of course but you can suppl. those, we do the E anyway, & the minerals will be stable. So if the other options don't work, I think the older stuff, if the tests are good, would be OK.
Laura K. Chappie & Beau
N.IL.2011
sunshine12982000
Hi. Haven't posted in a while. Sabrina is doing extremely well. Maybe 95% sound!! Thank you everyone for your help.
We've been having a horrible time finding good hay this year. Our supplier of wonderful, low s/s hay was murdered on Aug. 15, and I've spent more time than I can count on the computer and telephone trying to find a good timothy or timothy/orchard grass mix. I've called all over the country. Even got a quote of over $9800 for a semi of NY hay to be shipped in from Florida (for two horses). I said thank you very much, but no thank you. Yesterday we found some brome (with a "little" alfalfa mixed in) about 50 miles from here that we sent off for a test. He also had some Utah and some Ontario timothy, but he didn't tell us until we got there that it was last year's cutting. We took samples of those, also, just in case that's all we can find, but certainly, that's not desirable. Today we drove over 100 miles up to Kentucky to get core samples and one bale of the lovely farmer's timothy hay. When we got there, he told us it has some oats seeded into it. Great!! I know that oats tend to run high in starch, but when I asked him the percentage of oats, he had no idea how to answer. We bought one bale to test its palatabilty. We sent a sample off to Equi-Analytical on our way back to Tennessee.
My question is, am I just concerned with the s/s test results, or is there another problem with timothy that has "some" oat hay in it? I don't think the s/s will "grow", so my thought is that the test results will tell the story. Am I wrong?
Gayle and Sabrina
3/06
Fairview, TN
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ECHistory/files/Sabrina/
We've been having a horrible time finding good hay this year. Our supplier of wonderful, low s/s hay was murdered on Aug. 15, and I've spent more time than I can count on the computer and telephone trying to find a good timothy or timothy/orchard grass mix. I've called all over the country. Even got a quote of over $9800 for a semi of NY hay to be shipped in from Florida (for two horses). I said thank you very much, but no thank you. Yesterday we found some brome (with a "little" alfalfa mixed in) about 50 miles from here that we sent off for a test. He also had some Utah and some Ontario timothy, but he didn't tell us until we got there that it was last year's cutting. We took samples of those, also, just in case that's all we can find, but certainly, that's not desirable. Today we drove over 100 miles up to Kentucky to get core samples and one bale of the lovely farmer's timothy hay. When we got there, he told us it has some oats seeded into it. Great!! I know that oats tend to run high in starch, but when I asked him the percentage of oats, he had no idea how to answer. We bought one bale to test its palatabilty. We sent a sample off to Equi-Analytical on our way back to Tennessee.
My question is, am I just concerned with the s/s test results, or is there another problem with timothy that has "some" oat hay in it? I don't think the s/s will "grow", so my thought is that the test results will tell the story. Am I wrong?
Gayle and Sabrina
3/06
Fairview, TN
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ECHistory/files/Sabrina/