There's nothing more worrying than getting deep into winter and running out of hay. Then you either can't find any hay to buy, or the price is just ridiculous! We had reserved 500 bales of second cutting orchard grass from our shavings and hay guy to ensure we have hay for the next year. Unfortunately he lost all his second cutting-5000 bales of it! Lucky for us though, he had a good cut of Timothy hay, very soft and smelling lush, so we took 432 bales of that instead. The horses love it!