Thick as pig shite.

[Castle Farm]

Well as long as you don't have to eat it....but expect your animals to.

 

[Lincs]

To be fair I wouldn’t eat grade 1 barn stored hay.
Stock will only eat good fodder. If it’s bad they won’t touch it.

 

[davieh3350]

Well as long as you don't have to eat it....but expect your animals to.

Have you not read any of the comments and learnt something from them? A little damage on the outside of a bale is absolutely feck all, probably less value of hay wasted than what layers of wrap would cost. They put feckin thatch on houses that lasts decades.

 

[Agriclegend]

A local contractor was telling me that last winter when bedding was short a farmer he knew hauled in some hay bales which had been left out in the field unwrapped for at least three years under a hedge with the intention of using it as bedding. He put it through a chopper and it spread fine and the cattle were eating it as it was perfectly ok.

 

[hendrebc]

Bottom 2 inches of a bale is crap might be some waste off the top? If its wasted say 10% would that be a reasonable guess? More to make the next bit easy. All numbers will be to make it easy i dont care if its not accurate.
Hay bale value £20 10% waste = £2
Wrap on a bale = £2
Cost for a contractor to wrap the bale = £1.50
total = £3.50 for a wrapped bale instead of leaving hay out. A bit of wasted hay looks cheap now.

 

[boots]

Bottom 2 inches of a bale is crap might be some waste off the top? If its wasted say 10% would that be a reasonable guess? More to make the next bit easy. All numbers will be to make it easy i dont care if its not accurate.
Hay bale value £20 10% waste = £2
Wrap on a bale = £2
Cost for a contractor to wrap the bale = £1.50
total = £3.50 for a wrapped bale instead of leaving hay out. A bit of wasted hay looks cheap now.

NB haven't put a hay bale undercover for over thirty years not much waste just leave them in lines end to end. After a few weeks rain I can sleep easy as no one can set them on fire. If they were under a barn I would have to consider insuring them.

 

[Scribus]

I nominate round bales as one of the best farming inventions of the 20th century....

I remember Farmers Weekly asking that question of the readership in 1999 thinking that Ferguson's 3 point linkage would be a shoe in. Turned out the mobile phone came top of the list.

 

[Scribus]

90 bales of hay in the shed, 'tis a grand scent off them when you walk in first thing.

 

[Agrivator]

Bottom 2 inches of a bale is crap might be some waste off the top? If its wasted say 10% would that be a reasonable guess? More to make the next bit easy. All numbers will be to make it easy i dont care if its not accurate.
Hay bale value £20 10% waste = £2
Wrap on a bale = £2
Cost for a contractor to wrap the bale = £1.50
total = £3.50 for a wrapped bale instead of leaving hay out. A bit of wasted hay looks cheap now.

But you can wrap the bales 2 days quicker.
You save on 2 or 3 teddings
There is less dry matter and nutrient loss
You don't run the risk of ending up with shite
The aftermath is better
The preservation quality is better
It is far healthier breathing in the scent of haylage than the spores from average or poor hay.
The bales can be stored outside with no surface losses
15 love

 

[hendrebc]

But you can wrap the bales 2 days quicker.
You save on 2 or 3 teddings
There is less dry matter and nutrient loss
You don't run the risk of ending up with shite
The aftermath is better
The preservation quality is better
It is far healthier breathing in the scent of haylage than the spores from average or poor hay.
The bales can be stored outside with no surface losses
15 love

Fair enough i know wrapped bales have plenty of advantages i wouldnt try and say there arent. What i was saying was it might not be as bad as it first looks when you see it. Wasted hay looking cheap was probably the wrong way to say it.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

A local contractor was telling me that last winter when bedding was short a farmer he knew hauled in some hay bales which had been left out in the field unwrapped for at least three years under a hedge with the intention of using it as bedding. He put it through a chopper and it spread fine and the cattle were eating it as it was perfectly ok.

I bought some last winter for bedding 65 round bales hay left out for 2 yrs .... cows ate most of it . Inside it was lovely stuff.

 

[roscoe erf]

I bought some last winter for bedding 65 round bales hay left out for 2 yrs .... cows ate most of it . Inside it was lovely stuff.

I dumped some bales in the corner of the field that the cows wouldn't eat when in ,turned out they scoffed the lot

 

[Longlowdog]

Wrapped bales are subject to cats claws and bird beaks. 15 All I believe.

 

[It was already broken.]

I remember Farmers Weekly asking that question of the readership in 1999 thinking that Ferguson's 3 point linkage would be a shoe in. Turned out the mobile phone came top of the list.

1999 was back in the day before you got 100 shite calls before one useful one. The day goes far more smoothly when I forget to pick up my phone and leave it in the kitchen.

 

[Agrivator]

Wrapped bales are subject to cats claws and bird beaks. 15 All I believe.

30-litre black oil drums, with painted yellow stripes and two shiny CDs for eyes (giant wasps) will help deter birds. Fill them with enough water to make them stable enough to sit on top of the stack.

30-15.

 

[jendan]

30-litre black oil drums, with painted yellow stripes and two shiny CDs for eyes (giant wasps) will help deter birds. Fill them with enough water to make them stable enough to sit on top of the stack.

30-15.

It takes longer to feed up because you have to pee about cutting and taking the plastic off,and if it gets wet it stinks.Your farmyard ends up with piles of plastic in it until its taken away for recycling. 30 - 30

 

[ollie989898]

I dumped some bales in the corner of the field that the cows wouldn't eat when in ,turned out they scoffed the lot

Always the same, if it's black, half burnt and smells of caramel from a microwave they eat the floor clean.

 

[Henarar]

Fit to bale fit to haul, fecking get on with it

 

[Longlowdog]

Oh to live somewhere with accurate forecasts and low rainfall.

 

[choochter]

Oh to live somewhere with accurate forecasts and low rainfall.

thick as pig shite me