Hay bales for sale
Our small hay bales are sold at £4 each and can be collected from our farm shop. We offer a delivery service for larger batches of 12 bales within a five mile radius of our farm for a £5 delivery fee (please complete our standard order form below). If you are located very close to the farm we may be able to deliver larger loads by tractor. Please contact us direct to make any exceptional arrangements at info@bosaverncommunityfarm.org.uk.
Our hay is cut from our own traditional wildflower hay meadows (“unimproved”) so it is full of different grasses and herbaceous species (i.e. it is not too “rich” with rye-grass), making it ideal for horses. The bales are small five-foot bales, unwrapped, stored in our open barn. The meadows are unsprayed and unfertilised. We cut late in the season, usually August, to give the flowering species time to set seed, and the insects that thrive in our meadows time to complete their life-cycles.
Our Head Grower is happy to detail our ragwort removal procedures and you are welcome to thoroughly inspect our hay on site. We understand the risks which dried ragwort can present to horses’ livers. We always take very great care to walk the fields and to comprehensively pull out all the ragwort, removing it entirely from the fields before the contractor comes to cut. Our contractor also remains vigilant during the cutting process. In all the years we have used our hay bales for our own chicken bedding, our Head Grower has never found ragwort in our bales however, to be 100% certain, we also recommend you check your bales thoroughly prior to feeding horses.