Horse hay is really just grass that has been mowed and bundled. It often has the same bugs living in it that were in it while it was growing. Many bugs will also burrow their way into bales of hay and set up housekeeping there.
You can feed Jiggs Hay to a horse. Jiggs Hay is a hybrid and designed to be easy to grow, and more nutritious for the horse.
Are you asking is it okay to ride a horse when they are on just hay? It is completely fine to ride a horse that is on just hay. My horse is fat as a cow and she was on all hay, no feed all summer. I rode her regularly.
Yes, you can feed a horse wet hay as long as the hay is completely free of mold and/or maggots. Feeding a horse moldy hay can cause colic, and be fatal. Make sure all hay left out is covered with a tarp, and even check that hay. Runninghorse
No. Hay and straw is used for ground cover and absorbing droppings. The chickens will scratch and search the hay for bugs and errant seeds. They do not eat it.
no it isn't. you could try soaking the grain and hay first before feeding it to the horse.
horse=livestock+hay
You can feed Jiggs Hay to a horse. Jiggs Hay is a hybrid and designed to be easy to grow, and more nutritious for the horse.
No, horse feces does not turn into hay. Horse feces is composted and it turns into horse manure. This is used as a fertilizer.
Any hay can founder a horse, it is not what the horse eats but how much it eats. Some feed can founder a horse faster than others. Peanut hay is one of those.
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Are you asking is it okay to ride a horse when they are on just hay? It is completely fine to ride a horse that is on just hay. My horse is fat as a cow and she was on all hay, no feed all summer. I rode her regularly.
Yes, you can feed a horse wet hay as long as the hay is completely free of mold and/or maggots. Feeding a horse moldy hay can cause colic, and be fatal. Make sure all hay left out is covered with a tarp, and even check that hay. Runninghorse
No second cut hay often has more nutrients in it than first cut hay. But if the horse is overweight or not working much then first cut hay would be better if the horse will eat it.
certainly - if you do have mouldy hay throw it out straight away because there may be lice in the hay, which could be harmfull, for your horse.
Not much. Horse hay is mostly green hay that comprises of 95 to 100% grass. Cow hay, on the other hand, can be as green and grassy as horse hay, but can also be hay that is much higher in legume content (often up to 90%) than horse hay.
horses do not get hay. their owner or master buys the hay for them. then the human throws the hay on the ground for the horse to eat. Humans go to farm that sells hay then they buy it. a horse eats on average 150 bales of a hay a year, that is if they do not graze in the the summer.