Feeding newly wrapped haylage bales to livestock ok or not?

[devonian]

They were wrapped on Tuesday so they are only 4 days old, I know its not ideal to feed them this but is there any health risk to feed cattle newly wrapped bales? The grass was fairly dry although not hay dry. We could pass on doing this but just wondered what people thought as it is an option as we have some yearlings in the yard still.

 

[SBMF 2015]

It will be hot and they probably won't eat it very well but it shouldn't hurt them.

 

[Stickney94]

It shouldn't cause an issue.

We used to put alfalfa silage in a silo and I pitched down essentially the last load to flatten the top for the silo unloader. At most that was being fed 24 hours after being cut with the swather -- but morel likely 8 or less.

 

[kenny thomas]

If i have a small roll when I finish a field i will just give it to the cows. Never a problem so far.