Crowderfarms":22vvbgw6 said:
Lot's of folks of course feed left over hay, but rolls stored outdoors, loose 40% of their nutitional value in a short time, I read in an article recently.Hard to beleive when you get thru that first outlying roll and see how good it still looks.
It's hard to picture the volume of feed and I don;t know about the percentage of nutrition, but the outside 6 inches is a significatn percentage of the total volume of the bale. I had read a study a couple of years ago about the amount of waste in outside stored round bales so I started messing with the mathematics of the volume of cylinders. I don;t recall off hand what the amount was but it seems like it was around a quarter or more of the total. Starts making even the cheap 20 dollar hay pretty darn expensive. That's the reason it's claimed, probably by the folks that build them, that a hay storage building will pay for itself quicker then any other type of improvement.
dun