Hay Prices?!?!?! What are you paying?

[willow_top_farm]

I just paid $3.50 a square bale for alfalfa/orchard grass (mostly alfalfa), certified organic, plus 10 cents a bale delivered. Alfalfa is pretty common here in MI.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Still $3. bale delivered and put up here. Great horse quality.

 

[BriteChicken]

N Alabama and yesterday I had to pay 12.50 for a 60# square bale of Alfalfa for one rabbit! One darn Rabbit! Timothy doesn't grow within driving distance I was told and plus it's more expensive than Alfalfa. I have chickens too but they don't eat hay. Don't know how I'm gonna use it all before it goes bad... what's the life on a bale of hay? Sorry newbie when it comes to hay and can't believe I had to pay so much!

 

[oxdrover14]

N Alabama and yesterday I had to pay 12.50 for a 60# square bale of Alfalfa for one rabbit! One darn Rabbit! Timothy doesn't grow within driving distance I was told and plus it's more expensive than Alfalfa. I have chickens too but they don't eat hay. Don't know how I'm gonna use it all before it goes bad... what's the life on a bale of hay? Sorry newbie when it comes to hay and can't believe I had to pay so much!

Hay is good really forever as long as it stays dry it loses all the nutrients after 3-4 yrs but we had gotten out of animals for 3 years and then got some and they the hay we had made 3 yrs back ate it just needed some extra grain

 

[MissDanni]

We get Timothy hay for $2 square bale or $30 round bale.

Everyone here eats Timothy; goats, horses, sometimes the dogs will take some and munch on it.

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

Nuttin...


I just scored 4 round bales and 140 square bales that had light to heavy rain depending on where they were in the pile for FREE !! Can we say mulch and goat food city

 

[RPC]

Well I do not personally buy hay since my dad does his own costume hay baling and so I work for him. My pay for working is I get free hay. We sell grass hay for $4.00 a small square bale (70lbs), then Alfalfa is $5.00, and straw is $2.50. We have pretty much kept the same prices for about 5 years now but it could change any minute.

 

[vegaburm]

Grass hay from a friend, $4 a square bale, but I have to drive 25 minutes to pick it up. Grass from feed store $7 a square bale. Alfalfa square bale from Tractor Supply, $12 a bale. No farmers around here selling alfalfa that I could buy straight from.

 

[sheepboy1]

I pay a $1 a bale of anything i want

 

[Mossy Stone Farm]

Hay just went up here AGAIN...... 14.99 FOR Alfalfa 12.99 for mix 7.99 for straw

Local grass hay 5.00

Just heard from my hay guy 1st and 2 nd cut from eastern washingtom 310.00 a ton .

even the blocks Gem pine shaveings are now 7.50


I may have to reduce my herd and not bred a few does this fall till hay priece settle down again.

We have got to get fuel prices under control