Anyway the $15.50 a bale stuff is about 140 lb bales and the Oat for $5 a
bale is less than half that weight, but guess it all evens out. You guys
pay a lot less, but have smaller bales...
I'm really curious - how do you manage 140-pound bales?Of course, I guess
if you fee
On 9/7/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> That sure was a leap of faith for us - we'd never ordered a
> tractor-trailer
> load of hay before, sight unseen.
I think hay is a problem almost everywhere this year. I don't have a lot of
space to store hay in my barn. Probably about
I am just happy I haven't had to ship it from Pennsylvania or some
other distant place. Annie
That sure was a leap of faith for us - we'd never ordered a tractor-trailer
load of hay before, sight unseen. My cousin is taking about 1/3 of it. The
sizes of the bales aren't consistent, or ra
Karen,
I agree, it's also been a scary summer for hay here in Georgia. I had
a bit of luck in May, before we knew we had a hay crisis. I leased my
one non-Icelandic to a very good riding camp a mile or so from me and
took Chigger's "salary" in fescue instead of dollars. (It's all green
stuff!) S
I also went out on a limb this year and ordered a tractor trailer load of
hay from Aden Brook Farm. I initially got worried when they kept promising
the
hay but there was always some problem. It did arrive about 2 weeks late.
It is absolutely wonderful first cut timothy hay. Yes, it bro
I am fortunate that I have a good source of grass hay. I tell him early
spring how much hay I want, ordered 325 bales this year.
We've always had it good too. This is the worst year for hay since we got our
horses 19 years ago. We have the big old barn for storage and our wonderfu
> In 19 years of owning horses, this is the worst year I've seen for finding
> hay.
It's terrible this year in our area - none of the farmers around here
even will get a second cutting so everyone is having to import from
outside the area and are about to die from sticker shock. In past
years you
I am fortunate that I have a good source of grass hay. I tell him
early spring how much hay I want, ordered 325 bales this year. As
soon as he gets the first cutting in his barn he calls me with the
price, went up to $2.75 per bale this year. I send him a check for
the year's hay and he keeps it
This is a bit random, but I finally remembered to weigh a couple of bales of
our hay on the old grain scales in the old barn. (The scales are ancient,
but amazingly accurate, judging my weight compared to the doctor's office
scales.)
Our fescue bales cut and baled on our farm weighed about 34 po
