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Post by jeepgirl on Feb 4, 2007 15:05:24 GMT -5
Does anyone know of a place in this area that is selling hay at a reasonable price per ton?? The cheapest I have found is 180/ton and at the feed stores they are 13.00/ bale.
with 3 horses and possibly Crescent coming in 2 months I have GOT to find reasonable hay!!!
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Post by jeepgirl on Feb 4, 2007 15:08:09 GMT -5
Also, I can't find Crescents thread and I need some of the boarding facilities that were suggested. Where'd she go?   |
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Post by quatzie on Feb 4, 2007 15:48:32 GMT -5
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Post by quatzie on Feb 4, 2007 15:51:32 GMT -5
GRASS HAY small bales, $3/ bale up to 40 bales. $2.50 41+ bales. ALBANY, OR,541-928-7045, no Sunday calls.
Give them a call
Jeannie
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Post by quatzie on Feb 4, 2007 15:56:11 GMT -5
HORSES LOVE THIS HAY My barn is full of Hay - is yours? Good, green, July 4th, 2006, local grass hay. $3.00 per 50 pound bales. Sorry Can't deliver. SE Marmot Rd, Sandy Oregon. 503-668-4772*
Here one but in Sandy Or.
Hay is not cheap I can tell you that
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Post by jeepgirl on Feb 4, 2007 16:04:20 GMT -5
Perfect! Thank you. I know this is a bad time of year to be looking for hay, but anything is better than 13 dollars a bale at the feed store!!
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Post by quatzie on Feb 4, 2007 16:28:48 GMT -5
Oh, Jeepgirl You should look at the Salem Saddle Club for boarding. You would have to be a member to board there, but it's cheap 85.00 a month for stall/shavings you provide everything else. Membership is around 150+/- for a family .. they do have someone to feed in the morning, and the loft area will hold about 3 ton of hay per stall and they do have turnouts ... check it out if your on a budget... but its "drama place" I do have to warn you www.salemsaddleclub.com/ |
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Post by crum on Feb 4, 2007 16:55:12 GMT -5
How far are you willing to haul hay and what sort of hay are you looking for? I know someone who has hay that he will give free for rescues. I think he has 80-100 bales available. It is 2.50/bale otherwise. They are 45# bales. The hay is a mixed grass. It is clean of weeds and mold. It is a couple of years old and is a bit yellowed out. It is pretty low protein at this point. I call it diet hay when I use it for Lily I mainly use it as filler because my normal hay is all so high in protein and Lily doesn't need that much protein. Apparently there are several horses that are fed the low protein hay that do well on just it though. modified to add I occasionally feed it to my other horses as well as Lily if they are looking bored. They seem to find it pretty palatable and usually clean it up. |
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Post by pnp4kidz on Feb 4, 2007 17:38:26 GMT -5
Hi there,
Just a little bit on hay and aging...
hay loses it's vitamins over the first 6-12 months after cutting, but the minerals do not change. Mostly tho, the makeup of the hay, the carbohydrates (sugar and starch), fat and protein, do NOT change over time!
The sugar content of hay can be decreased by soaking in water, or being rained on, this occurs due to osmosis, the water has 'low' sugar, the hay has 'high' sugar, and the amounts will try to equalize over the 'semi-permiable membrane' which is the cell walls of the hay. (does this bring back any of those old bad memories from College biology anyone???)
If hay becomes moldy, it can and will change content due to the mold eating some of the content.... but clean hay is 'good' for literally years. The content of the hay is set when it is cut. and the color or look of any hay can tell you nothing about the content of hay, the most beautiful green, lovely smelling hay can be high or low in any of the sugar or protein. Fat is very very low in all hay, and starch is relatively stable at 1-2% in grass hay, but VERY high in all grain hays (oat, rye, wheat, etc) in the 10% - 20% range.
oh, and I pay a local grower $11.50 a bale delivered for grass hay here, and that is CHEAP for us!!! sigh. those ARE 100# bales, but still... I tell ya, I think a few times a year about going to Oregon myself and getting that darned $2.50 a bale stuff!!!
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Post by crum on Feb 4, 2007 19:33:44 GMT -5
after reading the post following mine I thought I should clarify that when I said that "it is pretty low protein at this point" that I actually meant by that he only has the low protein hay left. He usually has more nutritious hay available as well which has a higher protein content and is higher in pretty much everthing else as well, but he has sold all of that this year. Also when I said this particular hay was "yellowed out" I mean it is yellow because it appears to have mostly yellowed out before it was ever put into a bale form and not that it had become yellow from age. I had a couple of "city" people mistake it for straw is why I wanted to make sure I mentioned the color.
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Post by tfrancis on Feb 4, 2007 19:50:00 GMT -5
Just an FYI - the bales from Rickreall are 115#, three string bales. It takes about 18 to make a ton.
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Post by jeepgirl on Feb 4, 2007 20:11:34 GMT -5
Oh, Jeepgirl You should look at the Salem Saddle Club for boarding. You would have to be a member to board there, but it's cheap 85.00 a month for stall/shavings you provide everything else. Membership is around 150+/- for a family .. they do have someone to feed in the morning, and the loft area will hold about 3 ton of hay per stall and they do have turnouts ... check it out if your on a budget... but its "drama place" I do have to warn you www.salemsaddleclub.com/Wow, it looks really nice, AND it's less than I am paying right now!! Thanks everyone for all the help! |
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Post by pnp4kidz on Feb 4, 2007 21:25:00 GMT -5
Yes Crum, some of 'us' who know hay get real bargains!
the yellow color doesn't seem to affect the horse's attitude to eating it,
and the city folks often do pass it by if it isn't 'purty'...
so those of us who go by how it feeds out.. we get the 'good stuff'! just by not paying so much attention to the color
sun bleached is prolly right... that makes it yellow.... but doesn't affect they hay at all!
and I don't mind that lowish protein either, that way you can feed a lot and not over feed the protein... but keep their tummy's full. :-)
sorry, I didn't mean to be critical of you... sorry if it sounded like it crum...
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Post by quatzie on Feb 5, 2007 9:50:44 GMT -5
I belive this in Eagle Creek, OR but the price is good..
EASTERN OREGON GRASS Hay $120/ Ton Also alfalfa or orchard grass 503-637-3031
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Post by janet on Feb 5, 2007 11:40:47 GMT -5
Oh, Jeepgirl You should look at the Salem Saddle Club for boarding. You would have to be a member to board there, but it's cheap 85.00 a month for stall/shavings you provide everything else. Membership is around 150+/- for a family .. they do have someone to feed in the morning, and the loft area will hold about 3 ton of hay per stall and they do have turnouts ... check it out if your on a budget... but its "drama place" I do have to warn you www.salemsaddleclub.com/Wow, I boarded there in the eighties. Price hasn't changed. It was a good place then to board and I quite often had the arena to myself. Of course I rode at 5:30am and 4:30pm. We usually got together once a month to do clean up and up keep since it was a non profit organization. I wish there were more places like this around. |
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Post by jeepgirl on Feb 5, 2007 15:45:59 GMT -5
How far are you willing to haul hay and what sort of hay are you looking for? I know someone who has hay that he will give free for rescues. I think he has 80-100 bales available. It is 2.50/bale otherwise. They are 45# bales. The hay is a mixed grass. It is clean of weeds and mold. It is a couple of years old and is a bit yellowed out. It is pretty low protein at this point. I call it diet hay when I use it for Lily I mainly use it as filler because my normal hay is all so high in protein and Lily doesn't need that much protein. Apparently there are several horses that are fed the low protein hay that do well on just it though. My truck gets about 7 miles to the gallon, so I can't drive TOO far to get hay, that would eat up any savings in gas!!! modified to add I occasionally feed it to my other horses as well as Lily if they are looking bored. They seem to find it pretty palatable and usually clean it up. |
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Post by quatzie on Feb 5, 2007 17:45:18 GMT -5
I got some more stables for you ... Jeepgirl
This one is nice, but I never stabled there before.. friend has very clean have T/O's and indoor arena
74th NE Boarding Stable (McClay)
503-363-9082
R&J Stable just off 99W North of Salem
Not much of a place .. dont know but they do have pastures
503-393-9593
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