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Posted by Mike (WA) on June 24, 2007 at 09:16:38 from (69.10.197.227):
In Reply to: Horse Sense posted by Walt Davies on June 23, 2007 at 08:08:13:
I guess it gets down to you making a choice as to whether you want to make decent money putting up small bales the way they need to be for horses (dry), or slap-dash some round bales together and try to sell them for half as much to the cow folks. Fact is, horses are much more sensitive to mold and mustiness than cows, and that's just a fact of nature. Nothing anyone can do about it. As for checking for mold after I've got it home- sure, there will be some "green slugs" that mold, from where the mower got clogged or rake dragged it into a pile, etc.- and I don't mind those. But I sure don't want hay that is baled too green, and every bale is musty. Then, I've just wasted my money and I'll be real unhappy. It sounds like you know how to make hay, and of course, you needn't listen to any buyer who tries to tell you differently. But a lot of it is in how you approach it. Don't make fun of your customers, and how little they know. Not one person in a hundred really knows how a car operates (mechanically) anymore, but you won't find a car salesman belittling his customers for that. I've put up hay all my life, and was pretty good at it- but now, my day job doesn't allow me the time, so we have to buy. I sure see a lot of difference in approaches to "salesmanship", and I tend to walk away from the guys who insist on letting me know how much smarter they are than I am. Even if they're not.
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