Seafood hay

We spend a couple of hours getting ready for the new hay (we had to get the moldy hay out of the way - what a workout!) We love our horses, we love our horses...........repeat after each bale.............

So the hay guy shows up with his dad and 240 bales on his Volvo. Yes - this is the way to go - no more driving 30 miles each way to the hay guy, loading it up on several trucks/trailers, driving back, unloading etc. Sweet.....

So what could go wrong??

We pop open a bale and what do we find? It STINKS!!! Like rotton seafood. Yuck. We pop open another bale - the same thing. OMG!! 240 bales of more bad hay. So we tell the hay guy - no thanks. He is pissed. We are pissed. And nearly out of hay. We had a really wet spring around here, so the hay situation was hit or miss.

But, the hay guy says, I have some nice timothy hay.........................

127 Bales of Mold

A hay nightmare - fill up 3 trucks and a horse trailer with 127 large (60lb) bales only to find that most of the stuff is BAD!!!!!! It is so moldy that when you pop open the bale, it is like opening up a bottle of greenish brown baby powder! I called the hay guy. He said he was sorry and we could return the hay and pick up some other stuff! WHAT??? Load up the 127 bales, unload it at his place, load it up AGAIN, come home, unload AGAIN. Hell no.

We were sick. Fortunately, the hay guy called back, said he felt bad, and would deliver replacement bales. Whew!! The replacement bales were nice. So we decide to get 240 more - delivered.

We did pop open a couple of bales when we got there and they smelled sweet - don't know what went wrong :-(

Pretty Hay

Our first basic rule of thumb for getting hay - it must smell good enough for us to want to roll around in. :-) We have seen bales that we wouldn't even use for mulch in the garden! They either have weeds, briars, stink or are very dusty (mostly from mold).