Horse haylage

[sodbuster]

I'm off to bale haylage for a horsey place today. Just wondering what the ideal moisture content should be to make good haylage???

 

[Boohoo]

I'm off to bale haylage for a horsey place today. Just wondering what the ideal moisture content should be to make good haylage???

Everyone has there own idea so if the customer says it's ready to bale then it's ready to bale.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

25 to 28

 

[Dextersg]

What would 28 moisture feel like in the hand, when hay is ready it's ready but haylage I should think would be difficult to judge

 

[Dry Rot]

One day before it's ready for hay is what I've been told. Worked for me. Six layers of wrap and it lasted for 3 years with only the occasional bale showing white mould (which is still apparently edible). Gave some to a neighbour for his cattle and he sold it to his liveries!

 

[Dextersg]

One day before it's ready for hay is what I've been told. Worked for me. Six layers of wrap and it lasted for 3 years with only the occasional bale showing white mould (which is still apparently edible). Gave some to a neighbour for his cattle and he sold it to his liveries!

Nice one, someone else told me that and it works for him too. Had thought about moisture meter but then am I making something that works the way you do it more complicated for myself

 

[Dry Rot]

Nice one, someone else told me that and it works for him too. Had thought about moisture meter but then am I making something that works the way you do it more complicated for myself

Hay making is more (black) art than science and, yes, I'd say you were making life complicated.

Keep the air out and you can preserve grass at any level of moisture. If it's wet, it's silage. If it's damp, it's haylage. If it's dry, it's hay.

Moulds and microflora usually need air and moisture to grow. Fodder harvesting aims to reduce one or both to preserve the crop. Yes, there are other processes involved, but that's it basically. There are various 'rule of thumb' ways to check moisture content that have been used for hundreds, possibly thousands, of years. Google is your friend!

 

[Mc115reed]

Horse women think haylage is actually hay ... make hay and wrap it for horses and they’ll be happy

 

[steveR]

Horse women think haylage is actually hay ... make hay and wrap it for horses and they’ll be happy

ROFL!!!

 

[Still Farming]

Horse women think haylage is actually hay ... make hay and wrap it for horses and they’ll be happy

Happy ?
Want all done yesterday and never pay you maybe?

 

[Mc115reed]

I said they’d be happy I didn’t say that you’d be happy lol

 

[Derrick Hughes]

You can go a bit dryer with Rygrass . Meadow hay dont have much in the stem . When you aren't sure it's ready for hay it will be haylage

 

[7610 super q]

Aaaaaaaaparently, a lot of haylage made last year was " Too dry ". Luckily, I've carved out a niche market selling dry silage. I call it Sildry, and ask £50 / bale. Unfortunately, some buffoon down the road has started making Sildry, and is only charging £15 / bale. Would you Adam and Eve it.

 

[Still Farming]

Aaaaaaaaparently, a lot of haylage made last year was " Too dry ". Luckily, I've carved out a niche market selling dry silage. I call it Sildry, and ask £50 / bale. Unfortunately, some buffoon down the road has started making Sildry, and is only charging £15 / bale. Would you Adam and Eve it.

Farmers are all the same.
Cut your throat as good as look at you.

 

[steveR]

Aaaaaaaaparently, a lot of haylage made last year was " Too dry ". Luckily, I've carved out a niche market selling dry silage. I call it Sildry, and ask £50 / bale. Unfortunately, some buffoon down the road has started making Sildry, and is only charging £15 / bale. Would you Adam and Eve it.

New improved Sildry from the Originator....

Buy Cheap, get cheap....

 

[7610 super q]

 

[Boohoo]

It's one of the easiest games there is! Get yourself some nice, weed free grass. When a few dry days are forecast mow it, turn it a few times, row it up, bale it, wrap it, stack it. Enjoy looking at it for 6 months or so then deliver it, receive cash and compliments about how lovely your haylage smells, how much the horses love it and how it's the best haylage they've ever bought. What could be easier?

 

[7610 super q]

It's one of the easiest games there is! Get yourself some nice, weed free grass. When a few dry days are forecast mow it, turn it a few times, row it up, bale it, wrap it, stack it. Enjoy looking at it for 6 months or so then deliver it, receive cash and compliments about how lovely your haylage smells, how much the horses love it and how it's the best haylage they've ever bought. What could be easier?

I'm with you on the first paragraph, the second I'm unfamiliar with...

 

[Boohoo]

I'm with you on the first paragraph, the second I'm unfamiliar with...

Want to deliver some of my haylage?

 

[Mc115reed]

It's one of the easiest games there is! Get yourself some nice, weed free grass. When a few dry days are forecast mow it, turn it a few times, row it up, bale it, wrap it, stack it. Enjoy looking at it for 6 months or so then deliver it, receive cash and compliments about how lovely your haylage smells, how much the horses love it and how it's the best haylage they've ever bought. What could be easier?

Had all that and then followed by them then ringing up 6 months later asking for the next lot a bit cheaper because the horses picked through it a bit and 1 bale out of 50 had a little mould on it ...