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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 948776" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Since you specifically asked about 'premium' horse hay, KY-31 is out of the picture - and while it's good forage for geldings and open mares, I would not graze or feed KY-31 hay to bred mares past the midpoint of the pregnancy. Even top-quality fescue hay from high-endophyte stands can cause issues with thickened placentas, weak foals, and lack of colostrum/milk in the mare. </p><p></p><p>'Premium' horse hay may vary from place to place, but in my experience most of those 'discriminating' horse folks - whether they intend to pay 'premium' prices or not - are gonna want some incarnation of alfalfa/orchardgrass/timothy - whether it's necessary or not. </p><p>IMO, most of the colics we see anymore are due to dietary mismanagement; horses were meant to eat GRASS, not alfalfa, not corn, not oats, etc. </p><p>Yes, if they're a hard-working animal(like a draft horse/mule that's actually being worked on a daily basis), they may have to have some grain to provide the extra amount of energy that they can't get just from grass. But these pasture ornaments or stall-dwellers don't, for the most part, need much of anything other than some mid-quality grass hay.</p><p>They hayburners on my place eat the same stuff as the cows - round bales of mixed-grass hay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 948776, member: 12607"] Since you specifically asked about 'premium' horse hay, KY-31 is out of the picture - and while it's good forage for geldings and open mares, I would not graze or feed KY-31 hay to bred mares past the midpoint of the pregnancy. Even top-quality fescue hay from high-endophyte stands can cause issues with thickened placentas, weak foals, and lack of colostrum/milk in the mare. 'Premium' horse hay may vary from place to place, but in my experience most of those 'discriminating' horse folks - whether they intend to pay 'premium' prices or not - are gonna want some incarnation of alfalfa/orchardgrass/timothy - whether it's necessary or not. IMO, most of the colics we see anymore are due to dietary mismanagement; horses were meant to eat GRASS, not alfalfa, not corn, not oats, etc. Yes, if they're a hard-working animal(like a draft horse/mule that's actually being worked on a daily basis), they may have to have some grain to provide the extra amount of energy that they can't get just from grass. But these pasture ornaments or stall-dwellers don't, for the most part, need much of anything other than some mid-quality grass hay. They hayburners on my place eat the same stuff as the cows - round bales of mixed-grass hay. [/QUOTE]
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