photo Mike Sardinia's niece, Claire Devereaux, with a young Clydesdale foal that wasn't named yet. Mike Sardinia has a mobile veterinary service he operates from his farm near Clayton, Wash., 30 miles ...
BOZEMAN, MT – You invest a lot of care and appreciation on your horses, so it is wise to spend some time considering their primary diet – forages. The horse evolved over time to be efficient as a ...
Horses need constant forages and if a pasture isn’t readily available, many horse owners turn to feeding hay. Someone has to produce the hay and Alex Rocateli, Oklahoma State University Extension ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. If someone were to drive by as Nick McCoy, 83, and Larry Thomas, 78, cut hay in pastures south of ...
FRUITLAND — Typically once each summer, harvest at Dancy Farms is a spectacle that draws a large crowd. Dan Cone invites friends and enthusiasts of draft horses and mules to bring their working animal ...
Second-cutting fescue makes quality hay when stems and seed heads were cut earlier. Farmers cutting fescue hay don’t get many second chances to make quality hay. This is a one-in-five year, says Craig ...
Cows, with their multiple stomachs, can digest all manner of plant material. Horses need hay, high quality hay. As a drought-caused hay shortages looms this winter, here's an interesting strategy to ...
Andy Baker said he should have more than 7,000 bales of hay harvested by now. Instead, because of an unusually wet June, Baker has harvested only around 1,300 bales. “Usually I’m all done first cut by ...