Re: getting thrown out of barns


"LandShark" <landsharkruth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 30, 6:31 pm, JZMiller <dressaget...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have also been at one facility where I was not supposed to dress my
own horse- it is for the workers to do- that one was in S. Ca. I
stayed one month and my board bill was $475 and the amenities were
285.00 it was insane.
SORRY BUT I dont care what they pay Manuel or Jose- I am not paying
for them - and a board bill of $750.00 without an indoor- nope.
Horses in training pay for training, and I assess board for them for
the hay-- since they are there to be worked they are also groomed and
bathed/rinsed in the summer- makes sense.
Hay is expensive anywhere now, so the horses average 5 bales a month
for an horse of 16 hands, 6 bales for a horse of 17 hands.
I have no ponies here. One BlM burro who is a vacuam. No waste.

California is a whole 'nother world than the rest of the 49 states!
You cannot begin to compare barns. BTW how big are the bales of hay
you buy that 5 bales is enough for a horse for a month????? Those must
be some big mother sized bales. My horses eat about 20 to 30 lbs of
hay a day, 50 lb bales last me two days a horse. In the winter even
more hay. The bales cost me apx. $7.00-$8.00 a bale. Hay ain't cheap
in New England. 5 bales a month? Whoa, Nelly, I don't think so.

$600 to $800 is the going month rate for a barn with an indoor here,
and we need indoors in the winter. In CA. why the heck would you need
one?

Jody

I was wondering how big those bales were, too. We go through
approximately, 1.5 tons of hay/month with 6 horses, depending on,
among other things, the season. I *hate* measuring by "bale." It
tells me nothing.

Ruth W.

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I was thinking they must be round bales : ).

I guess it also matters whether the horses are out 24/7, whether they are
out on pasture or dry lots, etc. We feed the horses a lot more when they
are in, and more on the dry lots than on the pastures. They also will wolf
through the fresh green stuff more quickly and end up eating more of it,
than the stuff that is more dry and less sweet.

We average about 100 bales per week for 20 horses. We have 40-50 pound
bales. The horses on average eat from 3/4 to a full bale per day (the
ponies less, the bigger horses more.) We currently pay $4 a bale delivered
for very nice fresh green stuff (it's first cut grass hay, some orchard
grass, some timothy.)


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