Comments on: Got hay?

By: priscilla

priscilla — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:04:08 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up about the need for more fuel for our Soay in cold weather. Do you have any benchmarks you can pass along, such as a temperature below which you add __ more flakes, or __% more hay, or anything like that? And how about the other end, when it gets really hot, any way to judge how much to cut back other than hunch based on your years of experience?

By: Kathie

Kathie — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:06:32 +0000

I have found
over the years that no matter what animal or bird, weather makes a
difference in how much I feed. When the weather is cold, very cold all
of the animals need more to eat as they are expending so much of their
energy staying warm. So rather than have a set formula that I use I
would use a baseline, but base that on temp. In really warm weather
they will eat much less.