Curious, what does a bale of good hay cost you?

[tommboy1973]

Wow, I'm jealous too. I'm in AZ and Bermuda hay is $8-10 a 100# bale and alfalfa a bit cheaper at $6-8 for horse quality. Last year prices were much higher so I was feeling lucky until I read this LOL!!!

I've noticed too that at least at the feed stores here, grass hay is more expensive than alfalfa, but in Colorado, it was the other way around. Weird.

It seems everyone here in AZ mostly feeds (and grows) alfalfa, but I find it makes my mare too fat and my gelding too hot, and they both eat it like candy!!!! My bermuda lasts much longer and I stretch it with a bermuda/alfalfa pellet from a local mill (cheap and easy to haul/store for me) and Manna Pro show glo (?) vitamins.

 

[savingdogs]

I am so jealous! I don't understand why hay prices are so high here in Washington?

 

[Araylee]

I'm on the other side of the state and this spring paid $15.00 for a bale of alfalfa that lasted two weeks for two doelings. When the alfalfa FINALLY came in, we paid $120/ton. I've seen it for $80/ton. I've also seen it for $180/ton. My hay was mostly alfalfa with a teeny bit of grass hay and a few weeds thrown in, but good leafy stuff. This spring was so, so, SO wet that a lot of farmers lost their crops.

 

[PJisaMom]

I'm in West Michigan, and today I had 28 bales of what appears to be very yummy 3rd cutting alfalfa delivered and stacked into my barn for $100. ($3/bale ~ paid a few bucks in delivery and tipped the college boys dropping it off...)

I thought that was a fairly decent deal...

 

[chandasue]

Typically grass-mix is $2-3. I get nice alfalfa for $3 from a nice old guy. Usually alfalfa is $3.50-4.50.

 

[savingdogs]

Wow! That is so much cheaper than here!

 

[Ariel301]

Wow, I'm jealous too. I'm in AZ and Bermuda hay is $8-10 a 100# bale and alfalfa a bit cheaper at $6-8 for horse quality. Last year prices were much higher so I was feeling lucky until I read this LOL!!!

I've noticed too that at least at the feed stores here, grass hay is more expensive than alfalfa, but in Colorado, it was the other way around. Weird.

It seems everyone here in AZ mostly feeds (and grows) alfalfa, but I find it makes my mare too fat and my gelding too hot, and they both eat it like candy!!!! My bermuda lasts much longer and I stretch it with a bermuda/alfalfa pellet from a local mill (cheap and easy to haul/store for me) and Manna Pro show glo (?) vitamins.

I had the same problem with my mare, she would get hot AND fat! I would have to feed her so little on the alfalfa that she would be bored and hungry all the time. We don't have any pasture we could have put her on, she had to stay in her stall/run most of the time, so I felt bad for her. But eating tons of alfalfa made her super fat and unmanageable under saddle, and having to buy separate loads of grass hay for her was a pain...I will not have another horse until I can move somewhere there is some grazing room.