There’s something about the smell of fresh cut hay that is so delicious! While I love that smell, the satisfaction of having added hay to the barn is even better. Thanks to a team effort from Scott, his Dad, Eli and myself meant we were able to get over 200 bales baled and stacked in the barn Wednesday before the rain started on Thursday.
This time loading the hay was much easier than usual. Scott borrowed an attachment for our skid steer that can pick up 10 bales and stack them. What a HUGE BLESSING! I don’t know that we would have gotten everything done that we had to do Wednesday afternoon without it. We had to unload the hay by hand, but we were in the barn with lights so that worked out just fine.
We don’t put up any hay on our farm as we would rather bring in fertility than to move it around. However, we always have a need for at least some hay with the sheep, goats and show calves. We prefer to have small square bales of hay to feed because we have found that the livestock waste less feed with these bales. Also there is less spoilage waste than with large round bales.
Eli was busy raking, Scott’s Dad was baling, and I was setting the bales up on edge so that Scott could pick them up. I got my steps in that day.
We are so thankful to have gotten more hay put up! Since then it has been raining almost everyday so they grass is really growing still. Such a change from this summer’s drought!
Blessings,
Jennifer
Loved the video so I could understand how it works. Surely saves the back doing it this way!
It was so wonderful!