Dry-season feed
Boma Rhodes Hay
Leafy Boma Rhodes grass, cut, sun-dried and baled. Sold by the bale or by the lorry load.
Boma is a Rhodes grass variety (Chloris gayana) grown widely in Kenya for hay. It is tall and leafy, it holds up in dry spells, and livestock eat it readily.
We sell it in square bales. A farmer with two cows can take a few bales at a time. A ranch or a dairy unit can book a full lorry and stock up before the dry months.
At a glance
- Grass
- Boma Rhodes (Chloris gayana)
- Form
- Square bales, tied
- Bale weight
- Confirmed with each order
- Order size
- From a few bales to a full lorry
- Fed to
- Dairy cattle, beef, goats, sheep, horses, rabbits
- Dispatched from
- Nyeri
What good Rhodes hay looks like
- Green to golden colour, no grey or black patches
- Sweet, dry smell with no mustiness
- No dust cloud when a bale is opened
- Leaves still attached to the stems
Check a few bales when your order arrives, before off-loading is finished.
Who buys it
Who we supply Rhodes hay to
Dairy farmers
Roughage for zero-grazed cows, alongside dairy meal and silage.
Goat and sheep keepers
A steady base feed when pasture runs short.
Stables
Clean grass hay for horses and ponies.
Ranches and feedlots
Lorry loads booked ahead of the dry season.
Using it well
How to feed Rhodes hay
Bring it in gradually
If your animals are on fresh grass, mix the hay in over a week so the rumen can adjust.
Feed it off the ground
Use a rack or trough. Hay dropped on wet ground gets trampled and wasted.
Keep water close
Animals on dry hay drink more. Clean water should always be within reach.
Balance the ration
Hay is roughage. Milking cows still need a concentrate and minerals to keep production up.
Hay calculator
Work out how many bales to order
Animals
How you use hay
Your estimate
93
bales of Boma Rhodes hay
- Hay per day
- 46.0 kg
- Bales per week
- 22
- Total hay
- 1,381 kg
A planning figure based on typical body weights and dry-matter intake. Actual needs change with milk yield, weather and what else the animals eat.
Questions
Boma Rhodes Hay: common questions
How much does a bale of Boma Rhodes hay cost?
Prices change through the year. They are lowest after harvest and rise in the dry months. Send us the number of bales and your location and we will give you today's price with delivery.
How many bales does one cow need?
A mature dairy cow eating hay as her main roughage can get through roughly two-thirds of a bale a day, depending on bale weight and what else she eats. Use our feed calculator for a figure based on your herd.
Do you deliver hay outside Nyeri?
Yes. We deliver to farms across central Kenya, the Rift Valley, Nairobi and Eastern. Larger orders are easier to deliver far because the transport cost is shared across more bales.
Can I collect from Nyeri?
Yes. Call or WhatsApp us to agree a time and we will have the bales ready for loading.
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