Then they come bitching as Neddy is full of lammy .But horsey folks only want " Sweet June hay .....". That lovely stuff you made on the 1st July won't be any use.
Hay making 2022
- Thread starter carbonfibre farmer
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Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Thats when you drag out your 'low sugar hay, made specially for laminitics'. AKA hay that got a decent dose of rain and is more akin to straw than hay. One of my liveries has been feeding her horse for 3 winters on some such hay I made in 2019 and paying the same as the others pay for soft green stuff. I've still got enough left to keep her going for another winter....
Spencer
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- Location
- North West
Horses for courses..Thats when you drag out your 'low sugar hay, made specially for laminitics'. AKA hay that got a decent dose of rain and is more akin to straw than hay. One of my liveries has been feeding her horse for 3 winters on some such hay I made in 2019 and paying the same as the others pay for soft green stuff. I've still got enough left to keep her going for another winter....
Ask a silly question , why row up against the way you have teddered it out ?
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Just looking at that first picture, fair to say if you cut that round here you'd be in trouble as it would be a grass seed paddock.
What do you feed it to?
Simon Chiles
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- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Thats when you drag out your 'low sugar hay, made specially for laminitics'. AKA hay that got a decent dose of rain and is more akin to straw than hay. One of my liveries has been feeding her horse for 3 winters on some such hay I made in 2019 and paying the same as the others pay for soft green stuff. I've still got enough left to keep her going for another winter....
That’s where you went wrong, you should have charged her more for it. After all, I bet it cost you significantly more to keep turning it after the rain than it did to make the soft green stuff.
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
That’s where you went wrong, you should have charged her more for it. After all, I bet it cost you significantly more to keep turning it after the rain than it did to make the soft green stuff.
It probably didn't, I just left it in the swath until dry on top, tedded it out once, rowed it up and baled it. It would never occur to me to charge more for it. I obviously need to channel more inner Gordon Gecko!
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
how do you manage to make hay with those temperature?
looks like we will be go go go
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um , i said getting better
made better hay at 20c to 25c with bit of wind that fryed 29c, 30c and still not fit in the joint
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
- Location
- Hereford
Not made any hay yet but had 2 cuts of silage off 2 patches . Looks like hay making weather coming next week 
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Poor Summer coming up for Haymaking if you follow Weatherweb...its Rain rain and more rain...all of the time after mid June right up till early Aug
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Jon 3085
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- Location
- Worcester, UK
Same as most years then
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
Bet your fun at parties...
beardface
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
"More bad hay made in good weather"
They will have changed their minds soon I thought they couldn't tell reliably any further than a week anyway
- Location
- Near Colchester
Not even as long as that - 3 days max.They will have changed their minds soon I thought they couldn't tell reliably any further than a week anyway
Mark C
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Equestian HaylageJust looking at that first picture, fair to say if you cut that round here you'd be in trouble as it would be a grass seed paddock.
What do you feed it to?
milton-95
Member
- Location
- aberdeenshire
Baled some 120/90 yesterday between 18 and 20 % but the farmers putting them in front of a fan ,, be really nice stuff if the fans gets the moisture down
