Post by canesisters on Oct 29, 2015 13:59:30 GMT -5
If one more good'ol boy farmer tells me "Oh, well, I wouldn't sell it to ya if you were feeding horses, but it's just fine for a cow" when I call to try and find hay, I'm going to SCREAM!
I'm having a hard time finding a source for hay for this winter. My pastures are pretty good. There is still another acre that she hasn't even touched yet this year. But I want to have a dozen bales on hand (and a source for much more if needed) in the event of bad weather, fences down, illness, or anything else that might make me pull her off the pasture.
I thought I had a source for round bales but something has come up and that's not looking real promising right now.
SO - I'm calling around to every friend of a friend who has hay in the area. Over and over I'm being told that what they have is not fit for anything else, but I should be perfectly happy to feed it to my cow.
I've thought about lying to them and telling them I'm feeding a horse... but that would bug me. And my luck would be that I'd find someone willing to sell me great hay at a great price and deliver it for free... and then find out that I lied to them...
I've got a line on a local guy who describes his round bales as 'some are grass, some are alfalfa' that I'm going to see tomorrow afternoon.
I'm assuming that I should be looking at the grass hay instead of the alfalfa...? Wouldn't dropping a round bale of alfalfa in front of a heifer who has lived off of pasture all her life be a mistake? I was thinking that I could add some alfalfa cubes as we get into winter if needed.
So what am I looking for? I'm a little nervous about inspecting his hay - I don't want to offend him (is that nuts??).