Posted by Joel Sanderson on July 31, 2019 at 15:12:37 from (204.106.240.102):
In Reply to: Horses hay acreage posted by Pete in Holland MI on July 31, 2019 at 12:57:03:
Horses vary hugely between breeds. My arabian hardly eats any hay, while I had a haflinger that chewed through a round bale in two days! We'd left it in the lot for when we were on vacation. (Whoops.) My arabian, which is my road horse, barely eats two slabs of hay a day--and that has to be pure alfalfa or he won't touch it at all. The haflinger is from a northern climate and was bred for filling up on grass, so they have big stomaches to fuel them all day long as it digests. Same with other work horses. The arabian was bred in a desert where there is no grass to fill up big stomaches, so they eat richer food like dates, figs and alfalfa. I've even heard of feeding them dried meat! My arab eats grain, beat pulp, wheat sprouts, oatmeal and anything but grass. It has to be rich food, because he's lean. So that breed won't chew through a haymow like a workhorse will.
You can expect two bales a day stuffed into a workhorse. If you're feeding 50 pound bales and your hayfield's making 4 tons an acre, that's about 2.3 acres to feed one horse. A team of six would be almost fourteen acres. Add in the grain, and on a 40 acre farm, you're looking at close to half your land just to feed your hungry helpers. On the other hand, if you have waste ground that can't be tilled but can be pastured effectively, horse power is more economical.
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