I Need Hay!Fill out this simple form and we'll call you back ASAP about getting hay to you. | Current Hay SupplyUpdated: 11/02/2013 We don’t have any hay available at this time but expect within the next several weeks to have the same prairie hay in 800 pound round bales that we have been feeding our horses with for the past several years.
If you are looking for small bales of good quality hay and live in northern Colorado or the Denver metropolitan area we suggest you contact:
Arnold Turner
Home (303) 772-3087
Office (303) 776-1105
Cell (303) 775-0052
If you live south in the Castle Rock / Elizabeth area a good source for a wide variety of good hay is:
Ken Holder (303) 646-4611
We don’t expect to have any small bales available. |
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Tips on Buying Hay | "I sure like the hay my owner gets from the Colorado Natural Horsemanship Center!" |
Some people think the only measure of hay is cost per bale. We believe every horse owner should know the nutritional value of the forage they are feeding their horses.
A mature horse needs to eat about 2.5% of its body weight in good quality forage to maintain condition, so a thousand pound horse needs to have about twenty five pounds of good hay a day. If you are feeding by the flake, unless you know how much each flake weighs and how much your horse weighs, you will only be guessing about the proper amount of feed for your horse.
When you buy hay, the two easiest to understand measures of quality are protein content and Relative Food Value or RFV. The latter is a measure of palatability and digestibility. Horse owners most often buy by the bale, and we sell by the bale, because that's how people want to buy. The bottom line is, in the end, you are buying weight and quality, not a number of bales. |
