Re: RE: Rained on hay.

Posted by Billy NY on August 13, 2019 at 10:21:26 from (74.70.87.149):

In Reply to: RE: Rained on hay. posted by showcrop on August 13, 2019 at 04:37:39:

Marginal loss of nutritional value, you could lose that much just from sun bleaching it. I've fooled with this in a few ways, ideally, you want the cutting to dry as quickly as possible, avoiding rain and too much time in the sun, result being the darkest olive drab color hay you can get. Rarely will happen and a thick cutting, forget it. However, I have done it small scale, lighter cutting, volume is not much, but those bales just smell incredible.

Years back, I worked out deals buying hay from my long time friend and farmer, used to cut rake and bale my own. One year, he had a fresh planting of Timothy, similar circumstances with rain, early that morning, enough to delay baling a little, but as far as feed quality, was very good. Thing is as you know, baling it dry, I've had hot bales come in from a local farmer we dealt with near the other place, darned good thing I was handling the hay myself, if any of those got into the stack, barn would have burned. They actually were wet and warming still, I opened them up, spread it out and we were able to feed it out. Farmers thought was that if he put a wet one in with all the dry hay, it would absorb the moisture.... not in my barn, ever. I used to find these really heavy bales, densely packed, but dusty, cannot feed those out, but knew what he did after the previous. I agree people buying hay for horses can be a real pain to deal with, but we as horse owners, also put up our own hay for longer than we have not. We certainly know how to grow and put up good quality hay, and are not eccentric about being picky, just no dust or mold. Some hay while baled dry, is cut too late, too stalky, low feed value, horses just mash it into their bedding and make stall cleaning more difficult. There was nothing I enjoyed better than feeding out a lush green 2nd cut, they sure enjoy it.

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