Hay frustration

[sand_piper]

Before I talk about the lesson today (which went well), I want to vent some hay frustration. I found a great hay company that is located pretty far away. I don't have a truck so I am rather dependent on having the hay brought to me

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[emilyadi]

Wow, that sucks. Are the horses going to be ok?

[sand_piper]

If they don't deliver the hay tomorrow, we'll have to borrow Tim's parents' truck if they're not using it (which has spilled, wet paint in it at the moment) and try finding the hay place.

Meanwhile, they'll be a little hungry tonight! There are scraps of hay on the ground still, so I don't think their digestive tract will be damaged, but it won't be much. :-/

[penella22]

Hmmm....

What's her worming schedule been like, both before when she was thinner, and now? I'm pretty sure you worm her regularly, but there's the whole rotation through the 3 different kinds of wormer thing, and if she wasn't being rotated through before then a worm load might have kept her thin.

Exercise? Less or more before?

Has she been around any stud colts? :]

That's frustrating about the hay. We use square bales because it's so much easier to ration what the horses get. 750 lbs is A LOT of hay!

[sand_piper]

Her worming schedule has stayed the same. But I have wondered if maybe moving her here, where no other horses have been for a decade, has drastically decreased the amount of worms in her

[penella22]

Yes, it IS totally shocking they ATE that much hay!! I have to wonder if deer came out of the woods and helped them or something...

I would guess you could still use roundbales, but like you said, just have to have a section of fencing for the hay, and a way to let them in for only a few hours a day...

The stud colt question...I know Dolly was at a boarding stable before, and I was wondering if they had any yearling colts or 2 yr olds or anything that they thought 'were too young' and 'totally safe' only now it turns out Dolly's pregnant...

Hopefully not...always better when these things are planned, right?

[sand_piper]

Ohh I see. Nope, I don't think there's a chance of her being pregnant. I don't know of any stud colts kept there, and also she was mostly kept by herself because she was too bossy with the other horses, they said! There were two horses she was allowed to be pastured with sometimes, and I think they were both mares.

You know, we don't have any deer here, but there *IS* a momma moose with two babies roaming around the area. I don't know about the babies but it's certainly possible that Momma came in and helped herself.