Horse Hay Information

Amount of hay needed
You can figure 2% of your horse body weight per day. From Mid October to Mid May. About 210 days x 2% of Body Weight = lbs. of hay.

A 1,000 lbs. horse will use 20 lbs. per day x 210 days = 2.1 tons per winter season.

· Prairie Hay:
Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardi), Little Bluestem (Andropogon scoporius) and Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) are three rather unique varieties of native grass which thrive in the "True Prairie Belt of Southeastern Kansas.

The feeding value of these hays is unsurpassed among perennial forages. The crude Protein content of prairie hay, for example, will average between 5 and 10 percent; hay cut in early July will routinely run as high as 9 percent. The Total Digestive Nutrient content of prairie hay averages 50 to 60 percent.

This hay is grown in fields which overlie a unique combination of sandstone and limestone formations. As a result, the hay produced in these fields is consistently sweet and nutritious.

Because it is so palatable, prairie hay is an excellent hay for horses.

This hay is in standard bales that weigh between 70 and 80 lbs or can be gotten in a double compressed bale size. Same weight but about one third smaller.

 Perennial Grasses:

Perennial cool-season grasses have long been an important part of the Wisconsin forage program. Perennial grasses have very diverse uses foraging from hay, silage, and pasture to sod for roadside and animal lots.

· Smooth Brome Grass:
Smooth Bromegrass is extremely hardy, long lived, and well adapted to the entire state. It can be grazed or cut for hay. Smooth Brome Grass is extremely palatable for horses.

· Timothy:
Timothy is a very hardy, bunch-type grass used primarily in mixture with Smooth Brome grass, red clover. Timothy is also extremely palatable for horses.

· Timothy/Smooth Brome Grass:
The mixture of Smooth Bromegrass and Timothy is one of the better horse hays in Wisconsin.

Next to the Kansas Prairie Hay, this is the hay we select to feed our horses.

· Orchard Grass/Brome/Timothy:
Orchard Grass is a moderately winter-hardy, bunch-type grass. It is commonly grown in mixtures with grasses, such as smooth Brome Grass. This type of mixture makes a fair horse hay.

Legumes

· Alfalfa:
Alfalfa and alfalfa-grass mixtures are grown for hay over 3 million acres in Wisconsin. Alfalfa is high protein hay. Alfalfa is used and grown mostly for dairy milk production. In most cases, horses don't need a complete diet of alfalfa hay. Protein is money and your horse will probably not need the amount of protein that is in alfalfa hay. However it will not hurt the horse to be fed Alfalfa.

· Alfalfa/Orchard Grass:
Depending on the amount of alfalfa, this will make fair hay for horses. Again, you are feeding protein that your horse may not need.

· Red Clover/Timothy/Brome Grass:
Again, this makes fair horse hay. It has the same qualities as the Timothy/Brome Grass hay.

Due to the volatility of the Hay market in southern AZ we have elected to cancel our planed hay auctions for the winter of 2012. Instead we will broker horse and cattle hay for you to purchase hay for you cattle or horses.

Hay will be sold by semi load only. Sold by the ton not by the bale. (figured your currrent cost per ton by weighing your bales. Not all bales are equal. then dividing the cost by the weight. This will give you your price per pound. then multiply by 2000 lbs to get your ton cost. then compar our ton cost to what you are paying now.) Current market in southern AZ is $460 a ton for Alfalfa, Bermuda or mix grasses. Our current market will allow us to have premium quality alfalfa, bermuda or grass hay delivered to your location for between $300 and $350 a ton semi loads horse hay and $275 to $350 cattle hay. We have small square bales, med square bales, large squares and round bales.

In our research of the current southern AZ hay market we have found tens of thousand of bales of hay being held by producers for higher selling prices. One producer less then 3 miles from my current location is setting on 39,000 bales of horse hay. We are also finding that three string bales very from 70 lbs to 90 lbs. Yet they are selling for the same price per bale. Don't short change your self or your horses and cattle.

Our bales will weigh between 60 lbs. and 75 lbs. for easy handling. The hay loads will be guaranteeing to be non-rain on, mold free and have limited dust. The hay will be hauled in Van box trailers so it will remain dry. The hay will be test and you will know what you are buying.

The hay must by prepay for and your check will be held in escrow until the hay is delivered and accepted by the buyer. The hay producers selling the hay know the hay will be theirs if they ship a poor load.

Approx. 450 to 580 bales of hay per semi load. Trailer is weighed before and after loading. You will get a copy of the weight ticket.

If you are interested in semi loads of cattle or horse hay contact us at auction@execpc.com or 1-608-633-3300. Get your friends together and buy a semi load and see how much you can save.

We have some 300,000 bales of hay available to us at this time. Hay will be delivered from Canada, AL, GA, NE, MO. MI, and MT.