Today's funny

[jon f mn]

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[Keith Molden]

That's about right, but they keep coming back.

 

[grandpa Love]

My neighbor has 2 horses. I gave them a couple bales of hay off our first load this year. She said eeeewww my horses won't eat that. She has now bought 50+ bales.....horses "love it".

 

[rrman61]

Funny how cattle sometimes pass up the good hay to get to the Johnson grass or clover mix hay since sometimes i baled what I could get

 

[Tom in TN]

One of my "horsey" customers doesn't buy a lot of hay from me, but what she gets, she always smells each individual bale before accepting it. "This one is good, but that one is bad". I can't smell one bit of difference between the bales but it makes her happy to sniff.

Tom in TN

 

[dzc3]

Sniffing....was her name Jo?

 

[Farmer Rock]

Horse folks are a strange kind of their own.


Rock

 

[kcm.MN]

Tom, my wife has a nose a bloodhound would envy! She's also one who would be able to tell better hay by the smell.

 

[Oregon Tractor Jack]

I have been married to a horse person for 48 years. She is VERY picky about the hay we buy. She will smell every flake as she doles it out at feeding time. We also have to buy hay based on which horse gets it. We have a 24 year old horse with bad teeth, that one needs very fine hay or it won't be able to eat it. We also have a part thoroughbred that needs more than just grass hay so we have buy some alfalfa for her. Now that is just the hay part. SWAMBO also mixes up special supplements that are tailored for each individual horse. Everyone has their own set of buckets and it is mixed and ready to go. Heaven help you if you get the buckets mixed up when you feed, trust me I know... Horses are a life style for my wife and I am not looking forward to the day that she is told she can't ride anymore. She has told me that when that happens I should take her out behind the barn and shoot her....

OTJ

 

[Destroked 450]

(quoted from post at 07:26:36 12/04/20) Funny how cattle sometimes pass up the good hay to get to the Johnson grass or clover mix hay since sometimes i baled what I could get

Cattle love Johnson grass, we control it in some of our hay fields by turning the cows into that field, they'll nob it down to the ground and stunt it's growth.

 

[Donald Lehman]

I guess my father and I didn't make very good "horsey" people. Other than obviously mouldy bales, our horses got the same hay the cows got. They got a bit of grain out of the dairy mix. The "one out of a hundred that was any good for anything" is the only one we kept to his death and he made it to 29 years old. Either we got lucky or must have done something right. smile.

 

[miangus]

Boys had horses. When we showed up at practice or the trainers the other owners always asked what kind of supplement we feed. Would not believe me when I said just hay. When we got to the show or the fair I learned to keep our hay under wraps. I always free feed hay. I profess I am not a horse expert but the horses straight though digestive system needs roughage to work correctly. I will admit that the current remaining pasture pet does get her ration of senior pellets. She earned them, she is well over 25. When I go to the hay auction I am always amazed when people complain about prices. I got a dirty look when I responded that I wouldn't bale it for that. I asked a couple have you ever been to the New Holland dealer for parts? Ok, I am old I don't care what people think of me.

 

[Jamisonj1]

(quoted from post at 10:26:12 12/04/20) Boys had horses. When we showed up at practice or the trainers the other owners always asked what kind of supplement we feed. Would not believe me when I said just hay. When we got to the show or the fair I learned to keep our hay under wraps. I always free feed hay. I profess I am not a horse expert but the horses straight though digestive system needs roughage to work correctly. I will admit that the current remaining pasture pet does get her ration of senior pellets. She earned them, she is well over 25. When I go to the hay auction I am always amazed when people complain about prices. I got a dirty look when I responded that I wouldn't bale it for that. I asked a couple have you ever been to the New Holland dealer for parts? Ok, I am old I don't care what people think of me.

Not horses, but I have to tell this hay story of mine. When I started using large round bales there were about a dozen small square bales left in shed for no good reason and long forgotten until shed needed for parking a new farm truck, so I cleaned out those now 8 year old bales. I had cows eating last years round bales at the time and they left that fresh hay in favor of the 8 year old hay!!! When they finished it off, they went back to fresh rounds. Go figure?

 

[Kansasredneck]

I got a few bales last month. When I put the first bit out for my calf, she sniffed it, then walked dejectedly to the far end of the pen.
I got a cup of corn. When she saw I had corn, she came back to the barn. I then dumped it in the hay. She bent down, got a mouthful of grass, began chewing and was like Hey! This hay is good stuff.

 

[karlinpa]

HAD UP TO 30 HORSES WHEN THE KIDS WERE HOME WITH 4H AND WIFES COLLECTION I ALWAYS MADE MY OWN HAY MIXED GRASSES MOSTLYAS LONG AS IT DIDNT GET RAINED ON AND LET DRY NEVER HAD A PROBLEM FEEDING IT BUT UNDERSTAND YOUR HORSEPEOPLE GRIVENCES TRYED SELLING SOME XTRA TO COVER COSTS OF TWINE GAS PARTS PEOPLE EITHER SLOW PAYED ME OR CHECKED EVERY BALE DICKERING ON PRICE NOW THIS IS THE SAME HAY MY HORSES EAT NO PROBLEM WHEN THEY ASK ME NOW I TELL THEM TO GO ELSEWHERE

 

[NEKS]

Over thirty years ago a small circus come to our town. We had a business there and the owner of the circus come in and wanted to know where he could buy some hay for his animals. I called a farmer I knew that had small bales of hay. Before the circus left town the owner said that, that was the best hay he ever bought and was the cheapest he had bought.

 

[Doug Wi]

"horse hay" ranges from stuff any dairyman would love to feed to crap that is only good for cover hay. I sell cover hay in the fall at a friends house along a main highway. pulled a new load in a few years back [it was first crop junk cut in sept and had lain 3 wks before I got it baled , several rains on it]. a fellow pulled in while I was switching wagons and wanted 60 bales. I asked what he was going to cover needing that much. he said oh no its for my wife's horse. I tried to talk him out of it explaining that it really wasn't feed quality hay. his reply was that if they don't eat it today they will tomorrow.