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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 3031"><p>> @ 8 month. your horse is still growing so an alfalfa MIX is OK. however most people mix up the terms quality for horses. I sell hay and feed 1/6 dz horses of my own. Beef cows get moldy round bales stored outside, MY horses get same hay baled dry and stored inside, mixed grass(some fescue, not more than 10 or 20%)little bit of legume in it. any grass is ok for horses. mine will even pick over the occasional bramble and ironweed. Also dusty: mold makes spores that look like dust. lots of hay baled last year (drought) ended up dusty looking because guys raked with the rake tines touching the ground and raised a bit of dirt. Pull a handful from the center of the bale and smell it. a faint smell of a dry gravel road is OK , a cloud is not and definitly nothing that is musty or clumped,clumps mean that it was baled damp and that causes mold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3031"] > @ 8 month. your horse is still growing so an alfalfa MIX is OK. however most people mix up the terms quality for horses. I sell hay and feed 1/6 dz horses of my own. Beef cows get moldy round bales stored outside, MY horses get same hay baled dry and stored inside, mixed grass(some fescue, not more than 10 or 20%)little bit of legume in it. any grass is ok for horses. mine will even pick over the occasional bramble and ironweed. Also dusty: mold makes spores that look like dust. lots of hay baled last year (drought) ended up dusty looking because guys raked with the rake tines touching the ground and raised a bit of dirt. Pull a handful from the center of the bale and smell it. a faint smell of a dry gravel road is OK , a cloud is not and definitly nothing that is musty or clumped,clumps mean that it was baled damp and that causes mold. [/QUOTE]
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