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Our first delivery of hay :-)
May 30, 2020
Stacking 200 bales of hay in 90 degree heat and 100% humidity is not nice :-(
Today we finally got our first batch of hay. Hay has been in very short supply until this first cut of the year was done. We were paying $14/bale for orchard/alfalfa mix from a local feed store just to get something for the horses! Can't pay those prices for long. Even though my experience of 1st cutting is that the horses aren't partial to it - TOUGH!!! We have a couple of months until second cut is done, then we have 500 bales coming! Until then, they will have to make do.
We collected it in 2 runs, as we managed to fit 100 bales in the horse trailer and on the back of the truck. The previous owners of the farm left us a hay elevator that needed some TLC, but it did the job great! Very happy with how it performed, and it managed to get all 200 bales up in the farm loft with the chain coming off only 5 times :-) So appreciative of them giving us the elevator, there's no way we could have used the hay loft without one. Funny thing is, it actually feels like a proper horse farm having hay in the hay loft :-)