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Mixed hay, 4-5 years old. Plastic twine, the guy will load it for $5 per bale. Looks like about 200 bales.
Interesting, when he bought the property the bales were there. on the back side of the property and not visible from the road.
I guess about 800 pounds and I will have to haul it 20 miles.
Wonder if its worth hauling home?
 
Root around in a couple of them and see how much of the outside is rotten. Could be a bargain if you need hay
 
id jump on that hay.being 4 to 5yrs old i bet the cows will eat it like cotton candy.if your worried if theyll eat it.id get a few bales an feed it to them.an see how they eat it.
 
I bought a load of 3 year old hay a number of years ago for $5 a bale. Same weight. A good 1/3 of the bale was rotten, but the cows still mauled it and ate it. Take a load home and see what your cows think of it. :cowboy:
 
mnmtranching":s0uoy07j said:
Mixed hay, 4-5 years old. Plastic twine, the guy will load it for $5 per bale. Looks like about 200 bales.
Interesting, when he bought the property the bales were there. on the back side of the property and not visible from the road.
I guess about 800 pounds and I will have to haul it 20 miles.
Wonder if its worth hauling home?
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I am with Aaron - so you had best take it all.

You will not regret it. Cows love old hay.

Do not know why more people will not or donot feed it out.

And it will not hurt them one bit. They will root around and take what they like - the rest becomes bedding or compost.

Heck of a deal and you be sure to not pass it up.

Go call that guy right now and tell him you want it all - plus any old straw bales he has!! Cows love them as well.

Cut the twines off the bales just before you set them on the ground for feeding.

Bez+
 
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grannysoo":7v1smkdt said:
And if they don't eat it, you can always resell it to the people building roads. They buy "junk" hay all the time.
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or we have a mushroom farmer that will buy old hay
 
The way I found this old hay. The guy called, wanted to know if I would be interested in some oat cover crop hay. I looked at it and bought it. I noticed these other bales on the far side of the field. Asked what about those? He said "some old stuff that was here when I bought the place" I looked at it, plastic twine, good stuff underneath. I asked what he would take for it. Some thought, then he said I should have something for loading. What? he said "how about $5. I said, I'll take it. It will make bedding and I think the cows will eat about 2/3 of it.
 
Had some "Bad" hay a few years ago that we actually stacked out around a barn to form a corral. The corral worked great for about two years then the third year when the cows were turned into that pasture they started eating their corral and ate 3/4 of it even with green grass available.
 
That stuff will work great. i'd be all over that lieka fat kid on cupcakes or pigeons on corn meal. Cows eat it fine but there might be some extra waste from the outside but other than that the center will be fine. Also if you have cold weather it is god for them because their stomachs work harder to digest it and it produces more heat. Might have to feed them more of it to get the nutriitional value but at $5 a bale i think u can afford to feed them extra.
 
We used several round bales during the big rains this last month to protect one of our ponds from the erosion. This hay was about 3 years old and had been outside, unprotected. The pastures are full of lush, new growth bermuda, and the cows are down at the pond eating that old muddy hay. Go figure.
 
fourstates":hnbfbbn9 said:
We used several round bales during the big rains this last month to protect one of our ponds from the erosion. This hay was about 3 years old and had been outside, unprotected. The pastures are full of lush, new growth bermuda, and the cows are down at the pond eating that old muddy hay. Go figure.
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I turned mine to a new field of Coastal they had never been in before. The char/brahma cross made a bee line for the back side to eat mesquite beans before anyone else spotted them. The rest of them made a bee line for the old hay remnant bales out by the fence. Go figure.
 
Neighbor just last week put out some old hay for his cows. They went back to eating blackberry vines (the only thing growing in the pasture) and have so far stayed away from the hay after a sniff or 2.
 
Old hay - lots depends on what it was before it was baled. I've got some I baled last year that would qualify as some of Jogee's "horse hay" he baled afew weeks ago. It was old and coarse before I had a chance to cut and then got rained on to boot. I got tire of looking at it setting in the yard and put it in some washout areas last June. It is still their (they do love to headbutt it and rub against it). I've been feeding hay since July because of lack of rain and growing grass. I slipped them a roll the other day that was cut at the correct time and got rained on, it was gone before the "good" hay.
 

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