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Location: Texas | It's an hour drive to my nearest hayrite dealer, but i've done some research I think it might be worth it. I typically feed standlee and I just want to know I'm feeding the best. |
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Location: Deep South | If I was near an Omnis dealer, I would be feeding them. Currently feeding SelectWay and have previously fed HayRite. |
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Location: The Great Northwest | I would do my best to be sure I fed my horse as natural as possible with all the hay available he/she wanted before processed products. |
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| I LOVE the Hay-Rite cubes!!!! |
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Location: MN | I will never touch a Standlee product again. Opened a bag of alfalfa pellets and found plastic pellets. Not just a couple but at least a couple handfulls!!! And that was just digging through half of the 50lb bag. I found a local supplier and was of much better quality.
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | SG. - 2016-01-13 7:43 PM No
how come?
Have you had a bad experience with them?
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I don't like to feed the real hard alfalfa cubes and I don't want to feed Alfafla from Texas because of blister beetle problems. I feed Danco, Mustang Sally and Omnis cubes that come out of Canada.
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Location: Texas | Nevertooold - 2016-01-15 8:48 PM I don't like to feed the real hard alfalfa cubes and I don't want to feed Alfafla from Texas because of blister beetle problems. I feed Danco, Mustang Sally and Omnis cubes that come out of Canada.
I can't find danco anywhere near me, I wish I could though! |
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| The alfalfa for the Hay-Rite cubes is grown in Utah. The alfalfa is cubed in the field, instead of baled and then ground for cubes later. My horses have never looked or felt better than they have on Hay-Rite. I have never found anything other than alfalfa cubes in my bags of Hay-Rite.
You can always call Jim at the Hay-Rite warehouse in Weatherford, TX and he will mail you out a sample to try. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Blondes Are Wild - 2016-01-18 9:41 AM The alfalfa for the Hay-Rite cubes is grown in Utah. The alfalfa is cubed in the field, instead of baled and then ground for cubes later. My horses have never looked or felt better than they have on Hay-Rite. I have never found anything other than alfalfa cubes in my bags of Hay-Rite. You can always call Jim at the Hay-Rite warehouse in Weatherford, TX and he will mail you out a sample to try.
That's interesting. I guess for marketing purposes they should state that on their product page as I would never consider them as I always thought they came out of Texas. |
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| It says right on the website that it's grown in southern Utah, certified "weed free," and beetle free. It's been a great product for me!
Their warehouse is in Weatherford, which is where they do most of their distribution.
I wouldn't feed alfalfa out of Texas either...
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Location: Freestone TX | I bought my first bags of hay-rite this weekend when I was passing through Weatherford. Got to meet Jim and talk to him. I really liked the mini cubes. I was spending lots of time breaking up larger cubes in my Top of the Rockies cubes before soaking for my older mares. I won't have to do that with the mini cubes. |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | I love their pellets. They are larger than regular pellets and so soft and my crew loves them. I just use them as a filler with my Renew Gold. |
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| Really I think it all comes down to everyone has their own opinion. I personally love the Hay-Rite cubes, the next person may love the Mustang Sally or Omnis cubes, and the next will love Select Way. All in all, I think you will be doing well if you choose any of these products. They all use top quality alfalfa that is beetle free, and do not use dyes or preservatives. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Blondes Are Wild - 2016-01-18 4:15 PM Really I think it all comes down to everyone has their own opinion. I personally love the Hay-Rite cubes, the next person may love the Mustang Sally or Omnis cubes, and the next will love Select Way. All in all, I think you will be doing well if you choose any of these products. They all use top quality alfalfa that is beetle free, and do not use dyes or preservatives.
I agree....I really like my Danco dealer and I really don't like the store where I can get the Hay Rite. I travel 50 miles farther not to buy from that store. |
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Location: West Texas | Blondes Are Wild - 2016-01-18 4:15 PM
Really I think it all comes down to everyone has their own opinion. I personally love the Hay-Rite cubes, the next person may love the Mustang Sally or Omnis cubes, and the next will love Select Way. All in all, I think you will be doing well if you choose any of these products. They all use top quality alfalfa that is beetle free, and do not use dyes or preservatives.
That is true, Jolene. It's that way about everything, really.
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Location: Beggs, OK | Blondes Are Wild - 2016-01-18 9:41 AM The alfalfa for the Hay-Rite cubes is grown in Utah. The alfalfa is cubed in the field, instead of baled and then ground for cubes later. My horses have never looked or felt better than they have on Hay-Rite. I have never found anything other than alfalfa cubes in my bags of Hay-Rite. You can always call Jim at the Hay-Rite warehouse in Weatherford, TX and he will mail you out a sample to try.
I have asked a few times if there are photos or videos of this field cubing process and have never received a response. It sounds incredibly interesting and I would love to see how they do it. |
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Location: West Texas | rachellyn80 - 2016-01-19 2:46 PM
Blondes Are Wild - 2016-01-18 9:41 AM The alfalfa for the Hay-Rite cubes is grown in Utah. The alfalfa is cubed in the field, instead of baled and then ground for cubes later. My horses have never looked or felt better than they have on Hay-Rite. I have never found anything other than alfalfa cubes in my bags of Hay-Rite. You can always call Jim at the Hay-Rite warehouse in Weatherford, TX and he will mail you out a sample to try.
I have asked a few times if there are photos or videos of this field cubing process and have never received a response. It sounds incredibly interesting and I would love to see how they do it.
Concerning this marketing point, why would it make a cube any better or worse? I'll give the two scenarios for production.
Scenario 1: Hay is cut and field dried. Then, it is raked and transported by van to a cubing plant, where it is chopped, cubed, and cooled. Next, it goes to a bulk warehouse and stored. Finally, it is bagged and shipped.
Scenario 2: Hay is cut and field dried. Then, it is raked and baled, and transported to a cubing plant for storage. When ordered, it is then chopped, cubed, cooled, and bagged for shipment.
Tell me how those to are not equally effective ways to make cubes? How is one better than the other? I would argue that Scenario 2 is slightly preferred (to me), due to the cubes arriving to you being more freshly cubed than Scenario 1. Fresher cubes are softer and generally more palatable than older cubes. Neither of the scenarios are grinding anything. The top cubing companies that use bales do not blend bales, so there is no argument there.
Note that neither scenario is field cubed. That is an older process that has disappeared, due to quality control benefits of cubing in a stationary cuber, as opposed to tractor pulled field cuber. I am just posing this for anyone's consideration. I do represent a cube company that uses bales, so that is disclosed.
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Location: Bandera, TX | skye - 2016-01-12 10:11 AM I would do my best to be sure I fed my horse as natural as possible with all the hay available he/she wanted before processed products.
I have several head of horses. Some on the ranch and a few on the farm. From babies to competition horses. By far the best looking horses I see in my situation are the horses on natural pasture. Pasture that's not maintained in other words God made not man influenced.
I try to buy hay that has minimal influence from heavy chemicals. Every time my horses turn their noses up to hay sure enough it cimes back high in chemicals when I test it.
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