Texas members and other hay needing area members

[Robert_in_NY]

I have around 16 acres of nice timothy orchard grass mixed hay that has had an off and on rain fall for 13 hours. My horse customers won't want it now. I'm actually tedding it out as I type (love the tbn app). So my question is this, if there is an area in desperate need of hay would someone want this hay? I can rent a 4x4 round baler and bale it up for a minimal cost. If it can help someone then great but if not I'll leave it to mulch.

 

[aczlan]

Sounds like you got the same rain that we did... I was cutting last night till ~11PM, then got up to rain. If we can get it to dry it should still good enough for our horses, but I dont know if the horse person who was going to buy the other ~200 bales will still be interested in it

Aaron Z

 

[Mud Mechanik]

I would love to have it but shipping it that far would not even be funny.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I cut half the field Thursday and the other half yesterday early. It was warm, sunny and a good breeze and was drying fast so I don't think any of it will be good for horses. We just had another shower come in, was keeping an eye on the radar as I was tedding but most of the showers stayed north. But didn't get finished. I'm just trying to spread it out more evenly so that if I don't bale it I don't need to touch it again.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I would love to have it but shipping it that far would not even be funny.

I know, I just remember some of the guys talking about how hard it is to find hay and how expensive hay is in certain areas and if I can help them out then I would be glad to.

 

[aczlan]

I cut half the field Thursday and the other half yesterday early. It was warm, sunny and a good breeze and was drying fast so I don't think any of it will be good for horses. We just had another shower come in, was keeping an eye on the radar as I was tedding but most of the showers stayed north. But didn't get finished. I'm just trying to spread it out more evenly so that if I don't bale it I don't need to touch it again.

Between work and fixing dinner, I didn't get started until 6PM, so I got to test the lights that I re-installed the night before . The lights worked perfectly.


Aaron Z

 

[foreman Etexas]

I have around 16 acres of nice timothy orchard grass mixed hay that has had an off and on rain fall for 13 hours. My horse customers won't want it now. I'm actually tedding it out as I type (love the tbn app). So my question is this, if there is an area in desperate need of hay would someone want this hay? I can rent a 4x4 round baler and bale it up for a minimal cost. If it can help someone then great but if not I'll leave it to mulch.

Robert takes a great person to offer such:thumbsup:Things are really looking good around here this year,going to get first cutting starting this thursday but again thats a really great offer and thanks for being there for your fellow TBNers...

 

[RickB]

Sounds like you got the same rain that we did... I was cutting last night till ~11PM, then got up to rain. If we can get it to dry it should still good enough for our horses, but I dont know if the horse person who was going to buy the other ~200 bales will still be interested in it

Aaron Z

If it got rained on just hours after being cut and without drying at all, it should dry out fine and be perfectly good hay so long as it doesn't get wet AGAIN!

 

[aczlan]

If it got rained on just hours after being cut and without drying at all, it should dry out fine and be perfectly good hay so long as it doesn't get wet AGAIN!

I agree (as does my wife who got her bachelors in Animal Science and spent a few years as a dairy herdsman for a dairy that milks 400+ head/day), I just don't know what this horse person will think (ie: will she say "it got wet after it was cut, so I dont want it"). We will see on Monday or Tuesday when we bale.
IMO, as long as it dries well from here on out the difference wont be detectable without a lab test.

Aaron Z

 

[RickB]

I agree (as does my wife who got her bachelors in Animal Science and spent a few years as a dairy herdsman for a dairy that milks 400+ head/day), I just don't know what this horse person will think (ie: will she say "it got wet after it was cut, so I dont want it"). We will see on Monday or Tuesday when we bale.
IMO, as long as it dries well from here on out the difference wont be detectable without a lab test.

Aaron Z

The biggest problem selling hay for horses is the folks that own the horses. Bale it up, put it away and it will look very good to somebody about Feb 15th.