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<blockquote data-quote="kjonesel" data-source="post: 851355" data-attributes="member: 16842"><p>If I were to buy hay from elsewhere I would try to get the seller to probe several bales and have them send the sample away for analysis. If you buy your mineral or premixes from a national chain such as McNess have a fellow salesman in that area take a sample. </p><p>If you were to purchase large square bales be careful. My brothers have been baling the 3'x4' bales for 3 years now in hay and straw and they are a different animal than round bales. The hay will not cure in the bale as it is virtually wadded into a bale. Theirs has the acid tank on it where they can add preservative (which I'm not sold on, they burnt a barn down last year) this can alter the feed quality. If you don't have a way to feed them where you can break them apart they are so tight the cows can't pull them apart to eat. I fed one to my cows and they literally went hungry till I took the loader and broke it apart. Though I have noticed that the farmers in our area who use the new John Deere, New Holland, and Vermeer balers and roll them tight have cows with the core of the bale taking a long time for the cow to consume.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kjonesel, post: 851355, member: 16842"] If I were to buy hay from elsewhere I would try to get the seller to probe several bales and have them send the sample away for analysis. If you buy your mineral or premixes from a national chain such as McNess have a fellow salesman in that area take a sample. If you were to purchase large square bales be careful. My brothers have been baling the 3'x4' bales for 3 years now in hay and straw and they are a different animal than round bales. The hay will not cure in the bale as it is virtually wadded into a bale. Theirs has the acid tank on it where they can add preservative (which I'm not sold on, they burnt a barn down last year) this can alter the feed quality. If you don't have a way to feed them where you can break them apart they are so tight the cows can't pull them apart to eat. I fed one to my cows and they literally went hungry till I took the loader and broke it apart. Though I have noticed that the farmers in our area who use the new John Deere, New Holland, and Vermeer balers and roll them tight have cows with the core of the bale taking a long time for the cow to consume. [/QUOTE]
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