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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 810174" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>I live in a climate that you are lucky if you get 3 days in a row of sunshine. We don't have very much of our hay put up dry because we don't get 3 days of sunshine :lol: But, what hay we do have put up is lined up flat end to flat end, pushed as tightly as possible, and we don't have spoilage on the top & sides either, only the bottom, which will be a couple of inches. I do think the tightness of the bale is the MOST important factor we are dealing with. The moisture simply does not penetrate a tight bale. I see pics of some peoples bales and they wouldn't last a week around here. They would be rotten to the core.</p><p>Funny, this post came up. I've been looking at my feeding sites and how well the cattle clean up all the hay. Really and truly, I'm talking minimum waste at most feeders. Now, I have a few round feeders that are falling apart, and THAT's where I have waste. But, I make my cattle clean up before I load up their feeders. I've been meaning to take some pics & post on here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 810174, member: 968"] I live in a climate that you are lucky if you get 3 days in a row of sunshine. We don't have very much of our hay put up dry because we don't get 3 days of sunshine :lol: But, what hay we do have put up is lined up flat end to flat end, pushed as tightly as possible, and we don't have spoilage on the top & sides either, only the bottom, which will be a couple of inches. I do think the tightness of the bale is the MOST important factor we are dealing with. The moisture simply does not penetrate a tight bale. I see pics of some peoples bales and they wouldn't last a week around here. They would be rotten to the core. Funny, this post came up. I've been looking at my feeding sites and how well the cattle clean up all the hay. Really and truly, I'm talking minimum waste at most feeders. Now, I have a few round feeders that are falling apart, and THAT's where I have waste. But, I make my cattle clean up before I load up their feeders. I've been meaning to take some pics & post on here. [/QUOTE]
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