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Types of Hay For Horses

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Types of Hay There are two main types of hay, they are:

Meadow Hay;
This hay comes from permanently layed pasture,this hay will contain rye grass, clover and herbs. This hay is quite soft to the touch.

Seed Hay;
This is lighter in colour compared to the meadow hay and is harder to the touch. Seed hay has a higher nutritional value than the meadow hay, the other main difference of seed hay, is that the hay comes from specially grown pasture.

There is also another form of bulk feed for our horses, which is haylage.

Haylage
This is a semi wilted grass and is also a lot richer than hay, therefore a small holed haylage net should be used, this will slow your horses eating down. Haylage is wrapped in a thick plastic wrapper to keep the moisture in, when the plastic wrapper is broken and air gets to the bale, it must be used within 3-4 days during the cold weather and quicker during summer.



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this was very helpfull and i will know lots for my test on horses thank you

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