Winter is coming! (Delta Junction: apartment, law, moving to)

[DreamChasers8]

Originally Posted by Classic Satch

Thanks my dear. We're just a bit shy on funds because the hay delivery for Samson and Festus just occurred. Dear Lord, the cost for my wife's love, hobby-wise, is going to be expensive.

However, that's the reason she studied for her doctorate.

Did you import your hay from WA? We get ours from the Pt. Mackenzie Hay Co.. good prices, but not as good of quality from -48 I'm sure.

[warptman]

It's pouring out west here. The fall storms are lining up one by one now.

[Barkingowl]

Are there different grades of hay?

[Marty Van Diest]

I'm not a horse person, but a lot of newcomers ask me about keeping horses. I generally say it costs about $400 a month to keep a horse in this area...am I right?

[onthamove]

Originally Posted by JavaPhil

I was watching the mountains today. Clouds lowering their skirts and playing peek-a-boo with the termination dust. I am going to miss the summer(which never was thus far this year). But, I am looking forward to the long, dark days of winter. Oatmeal again in the morning and stepping outside and feeling the nostrils stiffen at first breath.

Does anyone else feel the possibilities of winter? Am I nuts? What's wrong with me?

na man, winter is best summer sucks

[DreamChasers8]

Originally Posted by Marty Van Diest

I'm not a horse person, but a lot of newcomers ask me about keeping horses. I generally say it costs about $400 a month to keep a horse in this area...am I right?

Umm no, at least not at our place. You figure I have a natural hay pasture with their 3 sided barn, so my horses are turned out constantly. I also turn them out on our other fields of grass and clover (they love clover). I also feed grain twice a day which cost me around $25 a month for a 50# bag of feed for 2 horses. Once I start feeding them hay regularly (when they can't eat what's here naturally from snow cover) it would be more around $100-$150 to feed from big rounds.

And a farrier (clips, trims and shods a horse's hoofs) only charges roughly $40 per horse and they need to be seen about every 2 months. Then of course worming and vaccines usually pretty cheap (if you vaccinate them yourself, like I do) . If a healthy horse not much needed for a Vet.

There are differences in hay. Hay grown in WA and in the -48 is much more supperior to hay grown here. Only because with short summers farmers don't often get more than 1 cutting. Down South I know they can get at least 3-5 cuttings in a year, the more cutting the better the quality...this is what I have learned anyways.

[warptman]

I guess that childhood game is right, hay is for horses, and they eat it, too!

[Need2Leave]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

Are there different grades of hay?

Most definitely... many kinds, many prices, many purposes. Unfortunately the horses used to be the expensive part. Nowdays the meat market is gone and there is nothing to prop up the value of a horse down here. They used to be a money maker (if you can tell one what to do)... now they drop them off at the humane society, if not the desert, because nobody can afford feed... at least not us regualar Joe's. It's a shame realy.

[DannyL]

THUNDER MOUNTAIN HAS SNOW!!!!!!

- you gotta be here to understand.....it's really early.....

[Classic Satch]

Originally Posted by DreamChasers8

Did you import your hay from WA? We get ours from the Pt. Mackenzie Hay Co.. good prices, but not as good of quality from -48 I'm sure.

I don't think so. The wife handles that stuff and I believe she got it off of someone from around here.