I've found foxtail in our Kaytee hay a few times and poor Zeus had a piece of it lodged in his eye that required emergency vet care. I now use a no-brand hay that is sold at our feed store and the quality is far far better!
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I buy big bales of horse hay from the local feed store. It's a combination of orchard and meadow grass with some timothy hay mixed in. It's outstanding and it's 7 dollars a bale. So worth it. I store it in big trash cans and it looks fabulous, smells fantastic and is much better quality than anything that I've had delivered from oxbow or KMS. Good luck and I hope that your local hay is exactly what you're looking for!
Thank you! What a great idea about the trash can. How big of a can do you use?I buy big bales of horse hay from the local feed store. It's a combination of orchard and meadow grass with some timothy hay mixed in. It's outstanding and it's 7 dollars a bale. So worth it. I store it in big trash cans and it looks fabulous, smells fantastic and is much better quality than anything that I've had delivered from oxbow or KMS. Good luck and I hope that your local hay is exactly what you're looking for!
The KayTee hay I get in the typical bag is delicious meadow grass. I live in fertile Eastern NC so we have a better selection of hay due to all of the farms around here and I haven't been disappointed this year. I even get these bags from WalMart. I have had horses my entire life so I know what good hay vs. bad hay looks like, smells like and even sounds like.
I have NEVER gotten a good bag of OxBow. It's always yellow, stiff, straw-like nonsense that my ladies won't touch and I pay almost three times the amount of KayTee hay. However, my number one preference for good hay is taken straight from the horses' mouth (well, sort of). The hay my gelding eats at his farm in Charlotte, NC is also deliciously sweet and fresh hay, so when I'm home, I get small bales for free.
I'd also like to point out that considering the dry nature of hay, I'd be interested to know if it's even possible to dye hay... I'm gonna have to go ahead and guess that it isn't. I don't know about the rest of KayTee products but their hay is really just fine.
If you take two seconds to go on their website, you'll see that they just say they dye their hay. I posed a DIRECT quote from their pages.
You shouldn't decide what's okay, because of your "guess ".
Typing something into Google is easy, fast, and you end up with actual facts for the advice you give.