Oreo Hay (tm)

[Jogeephus]

Pretty big contrast between bermuda and bahia grass.

 

[bigbull338]

how the heck did the hay get mixed like that.you couldnt bale a bale like that no matter how hard you tryed.love the pic.

 

[Nowland Farms]

Not that hard to do if you had part of a bale left in the baler and moved to another field which had a different grass. Interesting picture tho'

Where's the milk to go with the oreo bale?

 

[Nowland Farms]

Not that hard to do if you had part of a bale left in the baler and moved to another field which had a different grass. Interesting picture tho'

Where's the milk to go with the oreo bale?

 

[sizmic]

I usually have a couple a year that look like targets and I use them as such, Bow and Arrow. Very common around here, especially if you have some johnson grass patches.

Sizmic

 

[backhoeboogie]

I've got some cinnamon rolls. Weed. I pulled it all and held that stuff for my own cattle.

 

[Jogeephus]

Not that hard to do if you had part of a bale left in the baler and moved to another field which had a different grass. Interesting picture tho'

Where's the milk to go with the oreo bale?

That's what happened. I left the hay field and baled a little patch thats in a goat pen. The green grungy looking stuff around the inner circle is some rank grass the baler pulled up on its on. Fella that was helping me was so captivated by the roll he ran the darn rake right into the bale and almost messed up the rake.

 

[cowtrek]

Yeah I've had a few like that...

Man I dislike trying to make bahia hay... I used to cut three adjacent farms behind the sewer treatment plant here in town for a friend of mine about ten years ago... We split the hay 50/50. Those places were mostly bahia. It would be between knee and waist high and thick as hair on a dogs back most of the time when we'd go in and cut it. Lay out the prettiest windrows you ever saw behind that Zweegers mower. Let it dry a day and come back and rake it, seems like 3/4 of it had evaporated overnight. Make 2 or 3 passes to make a windrow, nice big windrow 3 feet wide and about 2 feet tall and look great, let it dry all afternoon and come back the next day to bale it, and it looked like another 2/3 of it had evaporated overnight. Flat little windrows MAYBE a foot thick at MOST. Then you'd drive, and drive, and drive, and drive, keep looking back waiting to get big enough to tie off and keep driving... seemed like it took forever. Tie and drop off the bale and start again, prettiest tan-green bales you ever saw. Come back a day or two later to move em off the field, stack or haul, and they'd have turned sh!t brown and squatted down overnight.

Cows would walk right over 2 month old fresh bahia bales to eat 3 year old moldy soybean/stemmy johnsongrass bales. Go figure... OL JR :)

 

[Jogeephus]

I don't like baling bahia either. Dulls my knives pretty bad. It must collect sand or something, I don't know.

 

[cowtrek]

I don't like baling bahia either. Dulls my knives pretty bad. It must collect sand or something, I don't know.

Yeah I've noticed that too... I think it's just tough as nails but I have noticed that the hay seems 'dustier' or 'dirtier' than just about any other kind of hay.

I used to do a lot of bahia cutting for some guys around here and other than smutgrass it was THE toughest crap to cut you ever saw. A guy up the road from us use to hire me to come bush-hog a couple acres adjacent to his house for his family reunion in mid summer a few years ago. I twisted a PTO shaft clean smooth off in that darn bahia.

If I never see any bahia again it will be too soon... OL JR :)