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How much do you pay for hay?
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We’re about ready to go get another trailer load of bale hay and are not sure what we’re going to end up paying. What are you paying for bale hay where you live? Please tell us your location and how much per bale.
Here in East Tennessee we’ve paid (per bale):
$4.50 (end of winter, in desperation)
$3 (winter - friend of a friend)
$2 (friend - special deal)
$1 (friend - last years hay)
Consider yourself lucky. I just got a loaner horse for the winter, here in Tucson, AZ. A bale is $11.50!
Holy smokes! $11.50? I wish I could bring you some of our $1 a bale hay or a couple of round bales or something.
Yikes! My son lives in Arizona and has recently gotten “horse crazy” - he has friends with horses and now thinks he wants one too. I’ll have to let him know how very big an investment it may be.
Thanks for the offer of the hay. I recently found out that our $11.50/bale hay is for a 100 lb’er. How much does your bale weigh? My horse eats 2 flakes a day and will be started on some Equine Sr. once I start riding her regularly (after I get a saddle tomorrow). A bale should last me about a week. Each flake is about 7lbs.
Okay well that seems a little more reasonable I guess. Our bales are only 30 lbs. each and we feed 3 flakes a day. Each flake is 3 lbs. So doing the math here…carry the 7, multiple by 18, to the second power (just kidding)…it looks like you’re spending something like $11 a week in hay. That’s not so bad I guess. I thought your bale was the same size as ours, in which case you’d be spending $37 a week.
I’ve never seen a 100 lb. bale, but I’m still a newbie 
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I just got to borrow a weight tape and found out Hero is 790 lbs. which is about 30 lbs, under what she should be. But since she hasn’t been ridden or exercised in a long time, she’s mostly bone & fat, with a little muscle thrown in. Since I feed 14lbs of hay a day and you’re feeding 9, I assume your horse is getting food through grass, of which we have none here. Unfortunately I only have this horse until the end of March, or until she sells, whichever comes first. If/when she sells, the owner has another one for me to “borrow”. We’re moving to Denver in April, where I plan to lease a horse. I’ll find out the price of hay there.
Do you happen to have a picture of one of these 100 lb bales? Aw heck I guess it’s just like a 30 lb bale, 3+ times bigger.
I can’t believe you only pay $4 a bale. I live in CA and right now we pay $10.95 a bale. It’s so exspensive here. Everything is exspensive here. 
I wish I could get hay for $4 a bale.
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