Even though it's a killer trip, we are heading back for more hay this weekend. This is fantastic: green, dry, fresh, with that sweet smell and no dust. My horse is LOVING it. We mixed it with his old hay, and he picked out all the new stuff to eat first. Why eat last year's hay when you can have nice fresh hay?
I am cramming hay all over town it feels like. Weather this summer has been wet, and the local hay has been cow quality rather than horse quality. The few bales I bought before this hay run had a damp feel to them, one of the people who feeds for us called, worried that it was damp from storage. That is NOT a good feeling. Hay should be clean and dry, and I worried about fermentation with the soft, damp feel to the other hay.
It's funny how careful we are with hay, I know I am much more conservative with horse feed than I am my own feed. I am perfectly willing to cut mold off hard cheese and then eat the rest of the brick, but even a sniff of moldy smell and the whole bale is out of the barn.
It's worth it though.
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