Our livestock ate nothing but hay–about 200 small bales–during a four-month period over the winter. That’s a lot of hay, and I suppose I should have purchased–or built–some sort of feeder to serve the hay in. But like so many things for the novice farmer, the protocols for hay feeding are a work in progress. […]
The sheep give me a hard time when I feed the cow her bucket of grain. They’d like nothing better than to get their heads in that bucket and the cow–our Jersey heifer Emily–is too nice to do much about it. So when I deliver hay in the morning, I drop it at the other […]
It’s been a horrible year for hay in our part of the world. With three weeks of steady rain in June, farmers couldn’t get their machinery into the fields to cut grass for hay. Plus, after it’s cut, the grass needs time in the sun to dry before it can be baled. Everyone watched as […]
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