Posted by Mike (WA) on June 15, 2011 at 16:19:54 from (69.10.196.29):
In Reply to: Re: Hay??? posted by dave2 on June 15, 2011 at 14:08:09:
3500 to 5000 what, Euros? They're still more than a dollar each, right?
My advice, from 35 years in the horse business, is sell everything you got, at 3,500 Euros- As far as hard times are concerned, "you ain't seen nothin, yet." And this from someone who routinely sells registered Paso Finos for $4,000+.
And don't worry about whether hay is going to be good enough quality for horses. ANYTHING is good enough for horses- they're not ruminants, and need to push a lot of roughage through for everything to work right. Anything on the upside of straw will work fine for them.
I had a client some years back whose tenant claimed that my guy's septic effluent was contaminated with methyl mercury, and was making her horses lame. I went out and looked, and she was feeding them the tastiest looking alfalfa I had ever seen- I was tempted to pour some chocolate sauce over it and eat it myself.
I opined that they were foundering on the alfalfa. She said I was an idiot lawyer, knew nothing about horses, blah, blah. I offered to send out a vet to look it over, her choice, at my client's expense. We settled on Dr. X, a well known local horse expert.
Didn't hear anything for a couple months, so called Dr. X to see if he had gone out, and what he found. He said he told her she was foundering her horses on the alfalfa, and recommended she feed grass hay instead.
I never heard from her again. Gave Dr. X a little hug at his retirement party a couple years later, for getting her off my back.
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