The Winter Hay Budget

The AnimalGrow planner for buying, storing and counting enough hay to see the herd through to grass

A herd's dry-matter figure is what the animals eat. It is not what you buy. Hay carries water, some of it is wasted at the feeder, some is lost in storage, and bales are sold by size, not weight. The Winter Hay Budget turns the figure from AnimalGrow's Livestock Feed Optimizer into the hay you actually need. Part 1 weighs the herd with a tape, counts the feeding days from a hard year, adds back the water, the feeder waste and the storage loss, holds a reserve, and turns pounds into bales and dollars (six 1,200 lb cows over 150 days call for 42 bales including a reserve, not the 27 that dry matter alone suggests). Part 2 covers buying and stacking hay safely, a stack count on the first of every month, and closing the season with your own measured waste figure. For people keeping cattle, horses, sheep or goats; not veterinary or nutrition advice. It sizes the hay you buy and does not set a ration. With your purchase comes a personalised sheet with your herd's hay for three winter lengths.

What’s inside

The full contents of The Winter Hay Budget: the budget, the winter, the working pages and three bonuses

Step 1, The Tape Rule: estimating a herd's weights with a weigh tape, group by group, for a winter hay budget

Weighing the herd with a tape, group by group
Counting the feeding days from a hard year
Adding back the water in the hay
Feeder waste, storage loss and a reserve
Pounds into bales, tons and dollars
Buying, testing and stacking hay safely
A monthly stack count, and closing the season
Winter hay budget, stack count log and purchase log
Bonuses: a quickstart, hay seller questions and the winter card
A personalised sheet: your herd's hay for three winter lengths

Plus a second PDF, worked out for you

Run one of the free calculators first and buy from that page, and this sheet is computed from your own figures. Buy from here and the pack still arrives complete — the sheet simply has no numbers of yours to work from yet.

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