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<blockquote data-quote="dcara" data-source="post: 38641" data-attributes="member: 473"><p>Thanks for all the replies. It was/is low end hay. I got it for a couple of reasons which I thought made sense. The reasons were:</p><p></p><p>1) Most of the 1st cut bermuda/rye hay was gone when I went looking last month and what I could find was $50 a roll (ouch). I've noticed the 2nd cuts (mostly bermuda) are starting to come in from the fields now and I have a couple of rolls on reserve from a neighbor at $30 a roll. I try to wait for the 3rd cutting bermuda to winter with.</p><p></p><p>2) I feed the expensive bermuda hay to the horses and the cheaper hay to the feeder calves for roughage. A different neighbor told me a couple of years ago that cows would eat just about anything so quality wasn't an issue. This person would roll hay his rye/johnson/bahaya in April and let it sit outside uncovered until around October before he started feeding it to the cows. The stuff looked terrible buy then but his cows still ate it.</p><p></p><p>Hay prices have gone up this year around here by about 30%. How are prices in your areas?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dcara, post: 38641, member: 473"] Thanks for all the replies. It was/is low end hay. I got it for a couple of reasons which I thought made sense. The reasons were: 1) Most of the 1st cut bermuda/rye hay was gone when I went looking last month and what I could find was $50 a roll (ouch). I've noticed the 2nd cuts (mostly bermuda) are starting to come in from the fields now and I have a couple of rolls on reserve from a neighbor at $30 a roll. I try to wait for the 3rd cutting bermuda to winter with. 2) I feed the expensive bermuda hay to the horses and the cheaper hay to the feeder calves for roughage. A different neighbor told me a couple of years ago that cows would eat just about anything so quality wasn't an issue. This person would roll hay his rye/johnson/bahaya in April and let it sit outside uncovered until around October before he started feeding it to the cows. The stuff looked terrible buy then but his cows still ate it. Hay prices have gone up this year around here by about 30%. How are prices in your areas? [/QUOTE]
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