Baling Oat hay

Lazy WP

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Neighbor called and asked if I would come over and bale some Oat hay. Most of it was being baled in rounds, but they needed 300 to put in the calving barn. As I said they were raking 2 windrows together for the round baler, but I tried a single. The old 271 like the amount, but the windrow was to wide for the pickup, so I ended up splitting them. Baling with a Case 830 Case-O-Matic diesel, and a 271 New Holland baler.


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Did you have much trouble getting it dry? I've been thinking about doing the same thing, but not sure if it would dry, and if the animals would like it. If they're feeding it to calves it must be pretty palatable.
Pete
 
I have found you really never get oat hay completely dry. It never molds or spoils tho but is great to heat if piled up. Never pile oat hay in a building unless you are sure it is completely dry. Several barns and sheds have burned down in our area over the years and it almost always involves oat hay.
 
All I have to say is someone mentioned the other day how itchy it is to bale brome hay. They must have different varieties then we had in NE Ks because I don't remember it being all that itchy. Now baling oat straw on the other hand, the itchy scale was in the 8-9 area on a scale of 10.
 

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