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So getting good quality hay that does not cost a fortune is our biggest all the time problem on this farm. Maybe someone here can give me some ideas to help
Do you buy hay? If yes, how much? How does it get to your farm and how do you store it? What are you paying? What are you feeding with it?
We have goats and sheep , and need a lot of hay ( for winter this year we have stocked up with about 600 square bales and 10 round bales )
I don't know if this is just our area ( wet) but we have a problem getting hay that is dry. Even if it never rained on it, the hay still isn't dry enough sometimes when put up ( our round bales are crap right now) . Is it the farmers around here are not that good? Is the weather just not good enough to get hay put up dry? ( it's usually the second cutting that causes problems). The problem is we try to get it from around here
Do you ever get a large amount of hay delivered? How did you find it?
We had our own hay field but couldn't find anyone to do a good job baling it. The farmer that did it constantly baled not dry enough hay. I think he totally ripped us off but that's another story. So we sold the hay field and property it was on ( half hour from where we live).
Hay equipment costs a small fortune so we never thought about buying our own.
thanks for any input here
Do you buy hay? If yes, how much? How does it get to your farm and how do you store it? What are you paying? What are you feeding with it?
We have goats and sheep , and need a lot of hay ( for winter this year we have stocked up with about 600 square bales and 10 round bales )
I don't know if this is just our area ( wet) but we have a problem getting hay that is dry. Even if it never rained on it, the hay still isn't dry enough sometimes when put up ( our round bales are crap right now) . Is it the farmers around here are not that good? Is the weather just not good enough to get hay put up dry? ( it's usually the second cutting that causes problems). The problem is we try to get it from around here
Do you ever get a large amount of hay delivered? How did you find it?
We had our own hay field but couldn't find anyone to do a good job baling it. The farmer that did it constantly baled not dry enough hay. I think he totally ripped us off but that's another story. So we sold the hay field and property it was on ( half hour from where we live).
Hay equipment costs a small fortune so we never thought about buying our own.
thanks for any input here