Fw: hay

[Guest guest]

I'd love to get your ex's hay. It sounds wonderful. Around here the bales

are called 2 wire and they are rectangle in shape. It's like 2 small square

ones end to end.

Beverly

hay

WOW, I do know that there are truckers that buy hay from my x and other

farmers around here and ship it to Florida. Although not fond of my x, I

will

admit he makes good hay. I use to say that if he was as anal about his

marriage as he was about his hay, we would not have gotten a divorce. They

do a

lot of hay and straw and probably take off over 20,000 small square bales

between hay and straw! Plus they also do some large round bales that are

for the dairy cows. There is also a trucker that lives nearby that I use to

do the export papers for him and he trucked hay to Kentucky. There is a

couple that I know that race standardbreds and bought a house in Florida

and

take there horses down there all winter to be able to train all winter.

They

say hay is scarce in Florida because it is so dry and their hay bales they

buy are compressed. I don't know how it does not go moldy but they say it

does not. It gets shipped in from somewhere else too, cannot remember where

from. There is a chemical that I know some farmers have used to dry their

hay quicker but I personally would not feed that hay but I wonder if that

is how they get the compressed hay dry enough to put it in bales like that.

People here think that $4.00/ bale is expensive and they are nice heavy

bales and the horse people are pretty picky here about their hay. We usually

get three cuts of hay off of a field a year. Horse people usually want the

first cut except maybe race horses. The second cut is usually too rich for

most horses. Is that the small square bales that you pay that much for? We

also feed large round bales here and that is what mine have out in the

field. They are cheaper to feed based on a per pound price, but the horses

waste more of it.

Carolyn

In a message dated 4/12/2011 5:36:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

foodfun@... writes:

I pay $8.00 for straw, dont use it anymore it attracts flies in the barn. I

pay $14.00 for alfalfa hay and am glad to get it.

Beverly

Texas