Quote from Forum Archives on June 25, 2001, 7:36 am

Posted by: amazinggraze <amazinggraze@...>

Deanna,

The answer to your problem is to bring a huge load down here to Ohio.
We will buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 Julie, you can get 2 round bales in a
pickup truck. We are short on pasture and have to buy hay even in the
summer. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only by His merciful grace,
Marci
Amazing Graze Farms
www.amazinggrazefarms.faithweb.com/

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot
lose.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David & Deanna Haley" <dhaley@pinenet.com>
To: "AHomesteadHeaven" <HomesteadHeaven@weloveGod.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: [HomeSteadHeaven] Farming dilema - need help brainstorming

> I'm having hay problems again and need help brainstorming.
>
> I just got my goat herd down to a managable size, my sheep down to a
> managable size and we have 3 horses (planning on one more as funds allow).
> All toll we only went through 15 round bales this winter and it was a
harder
> MN winter. We had 12 additional animals than we do now. We didn't touch
the
> 700 square bales in the hay loft.
>
> We hired a guy to bale for us because we just didn't have the money for
the
> equipment to do it ourselves. We baled 50 round bales just the first
> cutting. With it being so wet here this summer the farmers are all saying
> we'll get three cuttings, that means 150 round bales if we round bale...I
> only need 20. There was such a glut of hay last year that we couldn't
sell
> ours. This year is going to be much worse. What on earth does one do
with
> all the hay? Part of one of the hay areas will be horse pasture within a
> few weeks but that's only 4 round bales worth. The hay man says there is
no
> way my sheep and goats can eat down the other pasture/hay field, it's just
> too heavy and rich. He said it may need 4 cuttings. I know I should be
> thankful for all this forage but frankly I'm overwhelmed. I can't justify
> paying someone to cut and bale something I can't even use! We don't have a

> place to store square bales and it will cost me twice to square bale than
> it's costing me to round bale. Hubby is thinking of getting some cows but
> once again that means....more money and more work with animals. Does
anyone
> know how much hay we should figure per cow per month? We have to do
> something with all this HAY!....Deanna
>
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