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Hay Rake for sale. Oat hay for sale. Our hay farm offers the best quality hay rake for sale | Oat Hay For Sale cheap. Choosing grain for a horse’s diet can be challenging. Feed stores carry an endless supply of specifically formulated feeds with varying protein levels and additives including vitamins and minerals. Each one is specially designed for horses in a specific age group or performance level. A processed oat (crimped or steamed) improves digestibility for older horses with poor teeth, but a young horse with good teeth can chew well and eat the grain in its unprocessed state.

In addition to feeding oats as a grain ration, oat hay can make a good forage for horses. Oat hay is high in fiber and the oats are already included in the feeding. “Horses love it because there is a surprise in almost every bite,” Goodnight said. “It’s also a great hay if you can find it. An oats/alfalfa mix is much richer and higher in protein, but great for growing horses and brood mares. It also works well as bedding, just as straw does.”

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Goodnight cautions that barley hay looks like oat hay and is often grown in the same areas. However, barley hay should never be fed to horses. “Barley cannot be fed whole to horses because the husks will burrow into the skin and gums and cause awful sores,” she explained. “The nutritional value will be depended on the stage of maturity the crop was at harvest” Coleman said.

When compared to alfalfa cut at the same level of maturity as oat hay, oat hay is lower in crude protein and lower in digestible energy. That being said, the horse needs to eat more pounds of dry matter per day to meet it’s requirements. “For those horses that are confined, chewing on oat hay might provide enough chew time to reduce other behaviors that owners would prefer them not to have,” he said.