<\/span><\/h2>\nAfter seeing Comet thrive on fermented haylage, I’m a total believer this nontraditional feed has its place in baby horse diets, city slickers. It preserved nutrients better than plain grass hay for Comet’s sensitive tummy.<\/p>\n
While cost and storage are factors, the improved digestibility from haylage was worth it to get my frail filly feeling frisky as her stablemates. So don’t hesitate, friends – transition foals slow and steady onto quality haylage if regular hay isn’t cutting it.<\/p>\n
Next spring, come on down to my spread outside Omaha and see for yourself how my haylage-fed horses shine.<\/p>\n
I’ll gladly share my tried and true methods over a cold beer on the porch. Until then – happy feeding and keep me posted how your foals fare!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a farmer in Nebraska, nothing gets me more excited than seeing my baby horses grow up happy and healthy. Last spring, my little pal Comet just wasn’t her cheerful self and I started getting worried. That’s when my neighbor Joe, who’s been ranching for longer than I’ve been alive, gave me some advice about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}