Article: Hay in a day (when to condition . . .)

Renze · Aug 17, 2008

Grrrr said:
In the UK, haylage is just slightly damper hay, like baled one day earlier.

o.k. so what we feed to our horses would be qualified as haylage in the UK

Grrrr · Aug 17, 2008

Renze said:
o.k. so what we feed to our horses would be qualified as haylage in the UK

Yep

Actually, to confuse matters worse, they have also come out with a new fangled 'horsehage', which I think is just about the same as haylage.

AKfish · Aug 23, 2008

Hmm... horse feed? How do you keep it from molding-spoilage? Horses are very finicky eaters compared to cows.

AKfish

Deereman4020 · Aug 24, 2008

preservatives will help prevent it from molding

Grrrr · Aug 24, 2008

AKfish said:
Hmm... horse feed? How do you keep it from molding-spoilage? Horses are very finicky eaters compared to cows.

AKfish

It is wrapped in bags. We've been over this before I'm sure...

Renze · Aug 25, 2008

Grrrr said:
It is wrapped in bags. We've been over this before I'm sure...

We have never wrapped small bales... small haylage bales are even heavier than small hay bales, and when they're wrapped, you cant handle them on the ropes... So very unpractical.

There was a guy that ran a Wolagri small round baler/wrapper combination, (bales 70 cm in diameter) that sold the equipment because he could only get customers for 3 bales at a time. when he had to get his cost to travel from field to field back, the price per bale got so high that he couldnt earn a penny with it.