over farming.... you can go to the hay exchange hmmmm .org I think they
may have hay or haygurue.com? I think my computer crash I lost all my
contacts
good luck
jessi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Graves" <kgraves@4fast.net>
To: <haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [haflingerfriends] Re: Fw: Hay
> There is a McCloud in northern California in Siskiyou County. I
> haven't heard of this hay, but an tell you that it is, apparently,
> almost impossible to grow hay in my county in which the sugar content
> is low. I had my year-old grass hay analyzed and it came out at 17%.
> Also, hay grown in Siskiyou County has no selenium in it because there
> isn't any in our soil.
>
> Kathy Graves
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:07 PM, lauraafana wrote:
>
>> Cheryl,
>> What happened on the hay mix? I'm looking into my next batch of
>> timothy down here and one of the local suppliers was telling me
>> about a hay called Teff. I looked it up and it comes from Ethiopia.
>> Sounds like it may be grown up around McCloud. From what I've read,
>> the sugar content can vary depending upon the growing conditions.
>> I'm asking the supplier if the load has been analysised as I want to
>> keep the sugar content at 10% or less. I also checked out the Sudan,
>> but i'm not sure of the nutriental content. It does have have lots
>> of fiber. Have you looked at the safergrass.org website?
>> Have any others of you used Teff?
>> Thanks, Laura of Cal.
>> (I do have enough timothy for at least 2.5 months)
>>
>> --- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, sammybo7@... wrote:
>> >
>> > In a message dated 12/21/2009 7:38:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>> > animalshelpinghumans@... writes:
>> >
>> > Hello All,
>> > I have a question about Hay that I am hoping maybe somebody might
>> be able
>> > to answer. Is anybody familiar with Grain Hay? If so, do you know
>> what is
>> > in it and do you think it would be ok to feed the Haflingers?
>> > We usually allways only feed straight Orchard Grass Hay, but our
>> our usual
>> > hay suppliers don't have any straight orchard grass right now.
>> > Our options are a 95/5 mix of Orchard Alfalfa(95% orchard
>> 5%Alfalfa or the
>> > Grain hay. I think the Grain hay is a mixture of some timothy, oat
>> and
>> > something else, but I am not sure.
>> > I really don't like feeding alfalfa at all, but 5% is not much.
>> The grain
>> > hay is cheaper which of course is nice, but it is a completely
>> different
>> > hay than they are used to eating so I am just not sure what would
>> be best?
>> > Any thoughts on what you think might be the better way to go?
>> > They are all easykeepers who put on weight very easily.
>> > Thanks for any help or advice.
>> > Cheryl in Napa CA
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
> Kathy Graves
>
>
>
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