HAYGROUND

I grow horse hay in small 2 to 4 acre strips. I planted each "field" in slightly diferent mix. That way lack of rain, too much rain, extreme cold winter with no snow etc does not ruin all fields. If there is a short window for making hay then cut just grass. If big window then I cut the alfalfa mix. I also rotationally graze my fields with temporary electric fencing.

Seriously I didn't stop to think when I wrote this that a section is a measurement of land area. What I meant to say was that I had two different parcels of land each about 8 acres. One is grass hay the other alfalpha. We feed 4 of our horses and a friends horse that we keep for her as she doesn't have room for her horse in her city apartment.

If it were I, I'd let 'er go to grass. Darned horses get the shi*s on alfalfa.

If you do want to renavate the alfalfa tho, disc the fire out of 'er as early as possible next spring after the thaw. We do that all the time out here in the boonies to help a tired alfalfa crop rejuvinate.

Allan

How many horses do you feed? 1280 acres is a heck of a lot of hay to put up.

Allan

On the other hand, if Skybow is feeding 2 sections worth of hay to horses, I'd like to know how many of the hay burners he has. :-)

Allan