How much was horse feed in the middle ages?

Answer 1

The Middle Ages did not function on a currency system as we know it today. Most people grew what they needed to survive or bartered for it. For example: if you lived in a village and needed food for your draft horse, you would plant a certain number of acres that the Lord gave you in wheat or oats. Some would go to the Lord for taxes, some to the Miller for flour and some would be set aside for ol' Blacky. If you were the Lord of the Manor then of course your wheat or oats came from your peasants whom you so graciously let stay on your property. There were really no other horses outside these venues as no one could afford to keep anything (animals or children) who did not earn their food through labor. Unless, you were a traveling soldier for hire then you either let you war horse graze in whatever field you were camping in that night, paid for food for your horse along with your lodgings at an inn with coin earned in your last battle or your horses care would be seen to by whatever Lord you were serving at the time.