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Wet (to a certain extent) is better than dry on an established pasture. Run it about 50 ft or so, stop the tractor and check the pasture and equipment to see if it's running right. You'll also want to check your seed depth as change in moisture will effect that.

Yeah, we were ALL short on hay about February after the drought. I thought I was gonna run out, but the grass grew in earlier than expected. Rye has been being cut around us for a few weeks now, so not surprising that he'd have been out of hay in February and now has some Rye in stock. I'm...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. I raise and feed my own, cut some for others (of their own), and I sell what I don't plan to use. I can afford to tell them to pound salt if they're an arse of a buyer, and I will. I know majority of "customers" that buy from us personally. I will only...

Every hay buyer thinks they are experts on producing hay as well. That's why I provide the test and you decide to buy it or go elsewhere. On behalf of good hay producers everywhere, I'd really like to apologize to you for whomever screwed you over so bad.

Mine love fescue. Fescue just doesn't do well in the warmer, dry months.

As long as she's still nursing and energetic, that's positive. Best of hopes for you and your girls!

I had a surplus of 4 bales this year, because the grass grew about 2 weeks earlier than I had expected green up. Most is sold before it's even cut.

THAT... is awesome.

Are you talking about the paintball type gun that shoots balls of insecticide? They sell them at my local feed & seed, and also on valleyvet.com. Lady at the feed store said they are developing ways to get medications into the balls as well. Guess they can reformulate them to be topical? I...

The red or rusty colored stool would indicate a salmonilla infection. Usually calf scours is caused by E Coli, but either are easily acquired by humans. Just be sure to decon yourself (hands/boots/clothes) after working with them, and be careful not to touch your eyes, mouth, nose prior to...

Mine is tested, for my customer's comfort, not mine. I'm just saying no one is going to come on the farm and demand this or that with our process. Too many buyers to put up with that. Hay buyers are a weird bunch sometimes (including myself at times). It's borderline "horsey people" behavior...

Of course I know there is crap hay being sold as "great hay," but I typically don't need a hay test to spot it.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Terminology, but eventually you'll end up with Common.

Glad she is responding. I treat scours with electrolytes (4.5lb bag from TSC). Works as well as resorb at considerably less price. I use 10 of the probiotics twice a day, 1/2 of normal milk replacer, and electrolytes a few hours later. First thing in morning I give 15cc of spectoguard (made for...

How you "pull" that sample can alter the outcome of the test. Selling hay to some people is a pain. There are more buyers than sellers. You wouldn't pull one of mine. I'd show you the test (taken with a hay core sampler the proper way), your decision after that. Would you let someone come on...

You find one that won't, please let me know. I and many others on haytalk would love that info. Have heard no one get more than 3-5 years of productive Bermuda from seed. Even UGA says to sprig the hybrids.

I meant for next spring. You are correct, too late to get the rye this year. Fescue is a near failsafe. I'd try to get as broad of a spectrum of early, mid, late season grasses as I could is what I was getting at. Your fescue is a good late spring/early summer, late summer early fall producer...

Don't plant any variety of Bermuda from seed. It will revert back to common Bermuda within a few years. I'd go with an early cool season grass like rye to get something as soon as the frost stops. Timothy and OG would likely grow ok that far north.

I assume since you want to use this as a grazing pasture eventually, that you already have good perimeter fencing? If not, focus on that. Then, go get you about 5 - 10 Boer Goats and hem them up out there. They'll keep all those eaten back for you and won't cost you anything to feed/fatten...

I just use spring gates. I figure I have to get out of the tractor or truck to open the gate anyway.