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.
Look inside
Two full pages from the workbook, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- 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
- ✓ 27 printable pages
- ✓ 10 sections, worksheets and templates
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed, just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The workbook complements the free Livestock Feed Optimizer. It gives the herd's dry matter; the workbook turns it into the hay you buy and counts the stack through the winter.