Baled Hay Temp and Moisture
- Thread starter Ukjay
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- Ceredigion
It's ok to move it after a few months . Just not when it's doing it's thing
Well just push it into the centre then for God's sake! The sensor is at the tip.
Don't worry about 0.0001 deg. accuracy. Use your nose as well
Grassman
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- Derbyshire
Most making hay with big square bales will try to get to a moisture where no curing or fermenting happens. About 14% ish I think @Forage Trader? Anything above will ferment to some degree. Get up towards 20% and there's more chance things will go wrong.
Basically because a big square bale can't breathe. Same with small square bales baled tight.
There is a sweet spot in moisture content terms as to what will cure and make nice hay and what will cure and go mouldy or fusty. I'm afraid it's trial and error.
A lot of us on here will have decades of experience and still get it wrong!
Basically because a big square bale can't breathe. Same with small square bales baled tight.
There is a sweet spot in moisture content terms as to what will cure and make nice hay and what will cure and go mouldy or fusty. I'm afraid it's trial and error.
A lot of us on here will have decades of experience and still get it wrong!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
- Location
- Ceredigion
I'm sure the hays fine .But how can anyone tell by looking .I've been had so many times by looking at hay in big unopened stacks
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Hay don't ferment !
Hay is made before it's baled
Well instead of getting sarcastic because I raised a point against your suggestion for a 1 mtr long probe, if you had been bothered to read the thread, you would have noted that the device I am using gives temperature and moisture readings which was explained in this thread:
@Ukjay That hay looks spot on to me.
Horses seem to be enjoying it, but time will tell how it truly turns out after it has cycled. I am quite happy with our first attempt, so hopefully things will become clearer the more we do.
Unfortunately got to buy a bigger shed now
I think we can safely say we have all been bitten on that front. You cant test every bale before you buy it, so a lot is based on trust!
- Location
- Ceredigion
Trust is the word. I could phone people today and I know their hay would be better even that they say it is. Don't need to see it
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Ferment might be the wrong word!
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
What is the word for it?
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
I have no ideaWhat is the word for it?
I think it's a load of rubbish about hay " making" in the bale, I can always make good hay, my dad can't, I have paitence and don't bale till it's ready, dad always bales a day too soon, he can't understand why my hay is better
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
There used to be one round here made it greener than I make haylage!
Some years it was nice. Others it was like tobacco. Sometimes it was just stuck together like paving slabs!
- Location
- Leicestershire
Got a chap near me who's the same. Always bales a day too soon. Which is odd because he never seems to get other jobs finished, yet cracks on too much with his hay