About Us

We are a family operation dedicated to producing top quality hay. We also provide custom cutting/raking/round baling and trucking across Southwest Alberta at reasonable rates.



Our business was born out of belief that if we forged solid relationships with our customers, provided quality forage products, and reinvested back into support our community, we could become your first choice for supplying feed. Each year we proudly support our local 4H, and various community based groups.

Being the best means utilizing the best equipment. We have invested in top of the line John Deere and Peterbilt equipment to ensure we remain on the leading edge of reliability and technology.



 

 

Ranching


We take care in producing quality horse and cattle feed, to support equine enthusiasts and the cattle industry alike. When it comes to cattle feed, we believe emphatically that good food in, means good food out at your dinner table. This truly translates in to the high quality beef Alberta is famous for.



 

 

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Choosing the Right Hay for your Horses


Choosing the right hay is important for the nutritional health of your horse. Compared to other nonruminant animals, the horse has a relatively small stomach, normal-sized small intestine and a large hind gut. This digestive arrangement makes the horse better suited to grazing continuously than to having one or two large meals a day. You invest a lot of care and appreciation in your horses, so it is wise to spend some time considering their primary diet -- forages.

What are the principles of feeding hay to horses? Entire textbooks are written on this topic, but the basics are:

- Hay and other roughages provide nutrients and satiety for your horse.

- On average, a horse must consume about two percent of dry matter of its bodyweight per day (A 1000 lb. horse will need to consume 20 lbs. of feed on a dry matter basis).

- Different ages, classes and workloads of horses require different levels of nutrients from hay.

- All hay is not the same.

How should you choose hay? The nutrient needs for your horse can be met in a number of ways. For example, if you have late-maturity grass hay, no matter if it is timothy, burmuda grass, orchard grass, or brome grass, it will be deficient in protein. You can supply protein and energy in the form of concentrate, which can be grain or a processed feed. Problems with this diet include low forage intake - the late maturity grass hay is consumed at a low level, and horses may develop colic or other disorders from consuming high levels of high-starch grains. At the other extreme, full access to early bloom alfalfa hay can lead to weight problems in lightly-used pleasure horses, due to the high intake potential of the alfalfa. In both of these examples, it may be difficult to meet the horse's daily nutrient demands consistently, and behavioral problems associated with boredom can occur. The compromise for many horses is a good quality grass-alfalfa mix hay.

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Purchasing Hay


No matter who you choose to supply your hay, get to know your producer and stick with a good one. Hay in small rectangular bales always sells for more per ton than large round or square bales, because the hay producer goes through the significant effort of handling, stacking, hauling and dealing with small lots of hay and many diverse customers. We mainly produce round bales that average 950 lb. – 1200 lbs., so that our customers have a quality product at a reasonable price. Producing bales at this weight has also proved very beneficial to our customers, as they can easily move bales with smaller equipment. Good hay buyer-seller relationships will provide trust, respect, prompt payments and consistent hay supplies. Once the hay is home to maximize storage life, place it under a shed or tarp it to preserve its quality.

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