Your host buys twenty bales of alfalfa-grass mix every four weeks, allocated as follows:
- Seven bales for two domestic horses
- Thirteen bales for three adopted horses
The domestic horses consume 3.5 bales each over the four-week period.
The adopted horses consume 4.3 bales each during the same period.
This has been the pattern for several years.
Experience indicates that wild horses need about 25% more hay than domestic horses, which means they poop more than domestic horses.
These guys also receive grain in the evening, hay is not the only component in their diet.
They are not ridden or expected to do any work.
Call them pets if you’d like.
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