Economical Horse Hay

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Quality Farms</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quality Farms"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Hay Product"><U>Our Hay Product</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Varieties"><U>Varieties</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Inventory / Pricing / Payment Options"><U>Inventory / Pricing / Payment Options</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grass or Alfalfa hay ?"><U>Grass or Alfalfa hay ?</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Identifying Quality Hay"><U>Identifying Quality Hay</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contaminated Hay"><U>Contaminated Hay</U></A>   |   <B>Economical Horse Hay</B>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Feeding Your Horse"><U>Feeding Your Horse</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hay Quality and Horse Nutrition"><U>Hay Quality and Horse Nutrition</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Feeding Horses Free Choice"><U>Feeding Horses Free - Choice</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Choose the right hay for your horse"><U>Choose the right hay for your horse</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Map to Farm"><U>Map to Farm</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hay News"><U>Hay News</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.png"> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0d7c7aa0.png" border=0 width="199" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Economical Horse Hay</I></div> <div> <I>Oat hay is an excellent economical alternative to alfalfa for a balanced equine diet.</I></div> <bR> <div> Our oat hay is harvested with an eye toward obtaining the best possible balance between nutrient content and palatability. Oat varieties are selected for fine stems and good leaf retention. By cutting these varieties earlier than normally practiced, some yield is sacrificed. However, the hay is softer, cleaner and better accepted by horses than hay grown with other methods. Our oat hay is always tested for protein and nitrates to insure you  a quality product</div> <bR> <div> <B>Shown below is some expert views on oat hay.</B></div> <div> "Oat hay is nutritious enough for dry dairy cows, mature horses and beef cattle, says Morgan. And, if harvested in the dough stage, it has enough energy for lactating dairy cows, although sufficient supplemental protein must be fed, Kilgore adds.</div> <div> Dairy producers buy a lot of oat hay for their dry cows, says Greg Cook, a Hermiston, OR, hay producer and broker.</div> <div> “It can replace some of the lower-quality feeds such as grass hay, and higher-priced feed such as alfalfa,” says Cook. “It's also more efficient for dry cows, because producers aren't paying for high protein levels that they don't need.”"</div> <div> <I>(reproduced from Hay and Forage.com)</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>"The energy and protein content of good oat hay make it a suitable forage for mature horses at maintenance and early gestating mares." </I></div> <div> <I>Bob Coleman, UK Extension Equine Specialist </I></div> <bR> <div> If oat hay is cut early, when the grains just start to appear, it will typically be a light green color and have more oats. Early-cut oat hay is usually similar, nutritionally speaking, to good grass hay - about the same amount of protein, but less calcium. If the oats are cut when the leaves and stems are green and the grain is not yet hard, the resulting oat hay will be very much like good grass hay in terms of its protein content, although it is likely to be lower in calcium than a comparable grass hay would be. </div> <div> (reproduced from Horse Sense.com)</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>