Hay hay hay!

Sometimes I get asked... "How much hay can you fit in the barn?"

Approximately 407 tonnes. Is the answer Steven, Gry and I worked it out the other day.

The following question normally is... "What does a bale cost?" 

We don't buy by the bale, we buy by the ton so $285.00 per ton.

This led us to figure out a few other things...

Here are a few stats on our hay consumption (well our horses hay consumption).

407 Tons of hay goes in the barn,

815,200 lbs of hay,

1 bale is about 100lbs,

8152 bales of hay in the barn.

76 bales of hay can be moved by a "squeeze" machine in one stack,

8 of these stacks fits on one semi-truck,

14 trucks fill our barn.

We have 150 horses,

We feed 1 1/2 tons of hay a day,

547 1/2 tons of hay are fed a year,

The full barn lasts 266 days.

Last time we bought hay we paid $285.00 per ton,

That's $427.50 spent on hay we feed a day,

We spend approx $156,037.00 per year on hay.

We feed a lot of mouths.

Doggies Doggies everywhere.

In the next few series of blogs I'm going to talk about the dogs of White Stallion Ranch.

Ill start with the most recent... Noche.

Laura found Noche at a rescue who had set up camp in a pet store. She is a year and a half, 13lbs, and some sort of terrier mix. She has blended into the household nicely and has only had 4 escape attempts.

Her story in brief is that she was bought as a puppy for a lady by her boyfriend. When they broke up the boyfriend kept calling the lady threatening to kill the dog. The lady was so afraid that she gave the dog to the rescue. They had her for 4 months because no body wanted her (we have no idea why) and then Laura fell in love with that face. 

Noche is very friendly and loves attention.