Ours are $45 each. We only get 4 at a time because we don't have room to store more. Luckily the man we get it from has a huge barn that he sells from all winter. We go through about 1 a week for the horses, donkeys, and goats, from Nov. through Mar.Quail_Antwerp said:
Bruce sold me two of them in place of one of my big squares (so horsesitter can come out just once a day, and weather isn't such an issue, when we go to Penna. for ten days next month). He sez they're about 400 lbs, and gave us two for the price of one big square i.e. $35 apiece.
As long as you have a tractor to move 'em around, they do store easier (none of this unloading, carrying and stacking five hundred small squares by handQuail_Antwerp said:
) and more compactly too -- the hay is generally packed tighter so you can store a larger weight of hay in a smaller storage area. I dunno about 'less waste'. They are sometimes dustier or slightly-moldy, depending on your hay guy and your season and your standards for such things. The flakes on ours usually run about 30 lbs apiece but it depends how your producer has his equipment adjusted. The flakes are kinda annoying to try to split into smaller quantities tho so if you feed, like, just 15 lbs of hay at a time, it will involve a certain amount of wrestling.
