well i have been waiting patiently all day for my hay to be delivered for the winter, scraped together the money and all. 9pm comes along and finally get the call, go down to the crossroads to guide the truck back to my house only to see the biggest truck in the world, not a hope of it making its way past the crossroads down my road and down my lane, so what do i do, leave the bloody hay at the crossroads in the teaming rain!!!!!. no cover on it or anything.
AND, he was supposed to give me 4 extra large square bales when i only got two tiny round bales, how the hell am i going to get them down to my house, 6 miles away, i dont have a trailer but i can borrow one but how do i get it into the trailer and i dont have a tractor either or know anyy farmers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so angry right now not having a great night and the rain is pounding against the window here
well if he didnt give you the hay you wanted, AND it been rained on....will your hay supplier give you more to replace it/ give you more at a reduced price?
my barn switched hay suppliers after one week when they hay was supposed to come on tuesday.....and it didn't.....thursday rolled around and still NO call and NO hay. I think its entirely ridiculous and wonder how these people stay in business!
i need to keep this hay, i have managed to find a farmer with a tractor to bring it down for me and see what it is like, if it is entirely ruined i dont know what i will do but there is no hay anywhere near me, would have to go to far side of the country to get anything and i dont have a trailer or a truck to bring it over. i have enough hay left to last a day so i dont really have a choice, unfortunatly, but i hope i can get more soon. he gave it to me at a reduced price but i didnt expect torrential rain last night and thats what happened, i hope its dry enough but i dont think so
if you have the room, bust the rolls open and and dry them out again. If a farmers hay gets to wet before he can store it they will undo the rolls spread it out let it dry out and rebale it. I know you don't have the equipment to reroll it (or you wouldn't be buying hay) but you could spread it let it dry for a couple of days then bundle it up in a large tarp or something.
If we have only 1 or 2 rolls to move we will get the lawn trailer or the truck for 1 roll, get my teenage nephews put a ramp on the trailer or the back of the truck and roll it in.
If we have a trailer load to move we get lazy and get the tractor.
i was thinking of breaking them open and leaving them to dry in one of the sheds, some lovely farmer has just dropped them into my shed and the middle of them is lovely and dry but the outside is wet, so i will remove the outside and dry that out and hope that the middle is dry enough to feed, in the meantime im desperatly trying to find more hay. i now hate hay delivery men, they are so stupid
For the future, invest in some giant blue waterproof tarps, Florida Hurricane Holely Roof covering style. That way, if something like this ever happens again, you'll have something to throw over the bales to keep the worst of the rain off the hay, at least temporarily.
everything likes to go wrong, its not fair but it is worth it, never had a horse in a stable before really and mucking out early morning and evening is quite enjoyable haha. have taken the hay bales apart and about a foot into the bales is wet so it is laid out drying and i can use the rest, thanks be to god !!! i was panicking
Just a thought, please correct me if I am wrong.
So we know if hay is baled when wet, it is undesirable due to the chance of mold growing over time.
However, we also know that it is ok to wet down hay (even drench it) before feeding when dealing with a horse with respiratory problems.
So if both those statements are true, would it not be alright to feed off as much of that recently wet hay as possible now, before mold has a chance to take hold? You're not going to get mold on unrolled wet hay within the first 2 days, right?
Where I board my horses they are fed free choice hay in round bales outside. I have never seen the horses not eat because the hay was wet.
I think the difference is that you have unrolled it, lessening any chance of a hot closed moist environment. Why not just feed it now to get rid of that outside layer?
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