horse hay

keh · Jan 31, 2016

Local feed store has small bales of hay which obviously came from out of state IMO. They are compressed much more than regular small bales and are about half as long with as much weight to them as regular sized bales. Apparently they have been baled, possibly in round bales, then rebaled in this small size and tied with 3 bands of flat plastic 1/2 inch wide tape of the type that is used in industrial packing. Can anybody enlighten me on this?

KEH

oc-18guy · Jan 31, 2016

IDK but the local TSC sells them too mostly alfalfa. I would suppose it is done that way to be able to transport more on same size trailer.

jeffcat · Jan 31, 2016

How about fancy smancy bales?

Adirondack case guy · Jan 31, 2016

I saw similar in Runnings when I was there a week ago. The horsey people have money to burn evendetly.
Loren

Dave H (MI) · Jan 31, 2016

Many years ago a local guy, related to a long time client, came up with a way to compress bales to a much smaller size. He either was or had plans to ship hay out of state. The compressed bales were a lot more economical to ship. Not sure what ever happened to that scheme.

showcrop · Jan 31, 2016

They came and went here around ten years ago. Lasted maybe two years. I don't even remember what the supposed advantage was, but I know that they were pretty steep.

Dick · Jan 31, 2016

Out here in Oregon there are several places that make those small bales. The are mainly for export to Japan and other Asian countries. Here in my town there a large processor who exports all kinds of hay including alfalfa, very good grass hay and what I would call straw. The straw is the leftover straw from growing grass seed. The hay mainly comes in in the huge square bales and then once processed the small bales go out in containers, which are trucked to Seattle for loading on ships. I've heard that the alfalfa goes the middle eastern countries like Saudi Arabia for their fancy Arabian horses..
Thousands of tons go out of this processor every year and there are several located near here.

coshoo · Feb 1, 2016

Normal small squares can be compressed to about half their normal size, so they can get twice as much hay on the ships going to Japan and the middle east. Very common with Timothy hay here, for which there is a big market in Japan. Don't know why, it has less feed value than orchard grass or alfalfa, but the Japanese think Timothy is the only thing fit for their fancy horses to eat.

db4600 · Feb 1, 2016

A local man found an old JD wire tie in cent. Wis. I want to say it is #10W. They made a smaller bale for the intent of conserving room. They had it at Junkshow this past year and drew some attention. They were a hydraulic tension, wire tie, that made a 10x15 bale. They were made in the '60's. I've seen a discussion on here, but can't find the link. Folklore says they were good for breaking hay rack beams because of the weight that farmers would put on them.

Dick2 · Feb 1, 2016

Dad fed only Timothy grass to the horses; he got all riled up if one of us kids fed them some alfalfa.

Bill VA · Feb 1, 2016

I've seen these or something similar at TSC. They sell they sell too! Something like $20 each too!

I sold sold second cutting hay and one customer commented they had bought some somewhere, didn't say where, but they were surprised that it was a little dusty. If I see some dust in a bale of my hay, I cut the price and show the buyer. I can't imagine paying $20 for a block of packaged hay an for having dust!

ericlb · Feb 1, 2016

we bought a semi load of those a few years ago there ok, and the hay we got was fine for horses, that was a deal thru several friends and a trucker who started out with the load headed to Florida on a back haul but if we bought it he would give us a deal as he wanted a different better paying load to take back, the hay lasted more than a year as there were only 4 head of ranch horses to eat it here, probably the best hay those 4 ever had lol , had to adapt to unload the truck as it was in a dry van and since a friend of mine owns a feed store and i knew where his forklift was, and i knew where he was, that thing got "borrowed" for the occasion, the hay came on pallets and we had a pallet grabber so we could drag each pallet to the rear of the trailer with the forklift so it could get to it

keh · Feb 1, 2016

Thanks for comments. Looks like it's one of those "the customer is always right situations" and somebody ready, willing and able to supply the wants.

KEH

ztrmower · Feb 1, 2016

its all done for transport. alot of the large squares nowdays are resqueezed into the cubes. common in the larger hay areas

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