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OK, so I am going to name names. This is about NRS in Decatur, TX.
So I needed to stock up on straw for my goats this winter. I go down to NRS last night and ask for a pallet of compressed straw bales. I get a pallet of 24 bales. The guys are really cool, they load me up, all is good. It was night time, so I really couldn't see very well, but it was the only time I could get down there. So anyway I get home and start bucking this stuff into the barn this morning and I see that it's this:
That's not straw. That's trash, fallout, lawn clippings, crap they sweep up off the floor.
This is straw:
Long hollow strands that interlace and lay on top of each other like pick-up sticks (who remembers those?!).
As I understand it ... straw traps air, lets moisture evaporate and therefore keeps the animal warm. It's easy to rake out and replace, and keeps the dust down.
Clippings compress and squeeze the air out, and retain moisture, therefore makes the animal cold, like a wet blanket. It also rots and allows pathogens to thrive. Clippings fly everywhere and get into everything. The moisture also makes the stuff heavy and impossible to rake. It's useless. Worse than useless in fact. Actually detrimental.
I'm a first-year newbie and I know this. Am I wrong? AITA here for wanting to take this stuff back and give the boss at NRS a piece of my mind (while struggling to be civil and polite)?
Why can't these people actually look at what falls off the truck and say "No ... this is crap. Take it back, we're not selling this to our customers"?
So I needed to stock up on straw for my goats this winter. I go down to NRS last night and ask for a pallet of compressed straw bales. I get a pallet of 24 bales. The guys are really cool, they load me up, all is good. It was night time, so I really couldn't see very well, but it was the only time I could get down there. So anyway I get home and start bucking this stuff into the barn this morning and I see that it's this:
That's not straw. That's trash, fallout, lawn clippings, crap they sweep up off the floor.
This is straw:
Long hollow strands that interlace and lay on top of each other like pick-up sticks (who remembers those?!).
As I understand it ... straw traps air, lets moisture evaporate and therefore keeps the animal warm. It's easy to rake out and replace, and keeps the dust down.
Clippings compress and squeeze the air out, and retain moisture, therefore makes the animal cold, like a wet blanket. It also rots and allows pathogens to thrive. Clippings fly everywhere and get into everything. The moisture also makes the stuff heavy and impossible to rake. It's useless. Worse than useless in fact. Actually detrimental.
I'm a first-year newbie and I know this. Am I wrong? AITA here for wanting to take this stuff back and give the boss at NRS a piece of my mind (while struggling to be civil and polite)?
Why can't these people actually look at what falls off the truck and say "No ... this is crap. Take it back, we're not selling this to our customers"?