Posted by Billy NY on May 31, 2015 at 07:54:57 from (104.228.35.235):
In Reply to: Hay problem posted by Joe Styke on May 31, 2015 at 06:18:04:
I've dealt with this, if the moisture is running higher in the hay and you have a moisture issue in the building, definitely a bad combination. Is the building adequately ventilated, are the gutter down spouts or ends far enough away from the perimeter of the building ? We have a very large morton building and with the above combination of conditions of ground and trapped moisture. I have lost significant hay, way up top, mold on the top side, and this hay was very dry when baled, (I baled it). All of this was the building, I find out late that the roof vent fans were for some reason not known about or power cut off etc. Maybe that would have changed things. Dirt floor, as its a riding arena, and we put poly down, then pallets, ground moisture gutters soaking the perimeter, and even with the big doors open, the whole thing just sucks to store hay in there and is why we don't any more, other barn had roof issues, but not this problem, could not win, and you can't fool with this kind of hay with horses, made a ton of extra work dealing with it and discarding it too. Nice 2nd cut I did as a favor and knowing the well kept fields and quality crop it was, lots of clover and just some nice green hay grasses, only to spoil, way up high in the stack, as of late I don't even fool with hay any more, would like to under different pretenses, but for now, forget it LOL! Funny how the bottom tier would be fine. I've had higher moisture hay as well, knew better to put that in there, never thought I'd lose the top tier like we did that year, well it went for mulch on a pasture I replanted, no weed seed given the cutting it was, if anything any seed would have been desirable, lot of mature clover in it. Never knew a NI 215 flail type manure spreader would make a great mulch spreader, worked great actually ! So all was not lost I suppose.
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