Re: How's your woodpile/hay ?

Posted by Billy NY on January 27, 2014 at 11:28:43 from (72.226.79.200):

In Reply to: Re: How's your woodpile/hay ? posted by Nancy Howell on January 27, 2014 at 09:14:27:

Thats a real disappointment when surprised like that. I can appreciate the fussing with the fields like you and James have posted photos of here, it all starts with a nice stand of hay grasses. Though its not easy work, I still did not mind putting up a limited amount of small squares, like I was doing a few years back. Had I the ability on my own, I'd still do it, really something to appreciate when you feed it, in our case, with all that these horses do put up with, nice to give them something they really like. Between the weather and other situations, it can be a struggle to get that done, and secure it.

One barn is old and though still in use, part of it rebuilt, toss up between maintaining it given the old roof that likes to leak and or demolishing it, start over, just out of the budget I am sure. The other is a large arena, good roof, much newer than the other. They put a vapor barrier down, then pallets, it has 2 large doors at each end. The arena footing material has to be kept moist enough to not make dust, between that and I'll say moisture in general, it too was not a good place to store hay. I did 400 bales of nice 2nd cut, with lots of clover, even the regular hay guy said that is nice stuff. They put a few thousand in there, with room on top, I brought up an elevator and put all that nice 2nd cut up high on top. I still lost some of that and it was dry from the field, I baled it and stacked it twice, you could tell, the up side on bales on top were dusting, molding, only on that side, with the work I put into delivering this, very frustrating indeed. Knowing better than to even try to salvage any questionable bale, with what could be lethal to a horse, I did put it aside and used it for mulch when I replanted a small pasture, + the garden, no weed seed in it, so all was not lost. Frustrating enough to get that nice hay into a wagon and off the field only to have that happen. No safe place to store larger quantities without significant loss, and my biggest problem, which was if any of it got past hired help, whom was educated in detail about it, horses are fussy, good chance they won't eat it, but that mold dust is not so good either. The only time we could store it is when mold can't grow, like now, bitter cold. When we had horses here, barns had good roof's hay mow above the stall areas, never recall this problem ever, inspecting and sorting through compromised hay. It also made a lot of extra work.

That's a good solution, I have re-directed water and protected that vapor condensation away from stacks of hay from the underside of the roof. The stack does make it easy to do that, you are right up close to the underside of the roof.

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