Bales of Silage

TUBBY

Lads
What do ye reckon. would wettish bales of silage (half bucket of water in bottom of each) preserve til next year if well wrapped or would a lad be better off try and get rid even if money is brutal for silage.
it is good stuff but was baled fresh.

jeff greene

TUBBY wrote: »

Lads
What do ye reckon. would wettish bales of silage (half bucket of water in bottom of each) preserve til next year if well wrapped or would a lad be better off try and get rid even if money is brutal for silage.
it is good stuff but was baled fresh.

Low DM will last longer than drier bales if well wrapped, keeps cats and crows off and bait rats. With all inputs gone crazy, they will be your cheapest bales next winter

Micheal H

I'd hang on to them too. It might not have been a problem for yourself, but with the last few cold winters we had awful problems with frozen water pipes. We were certainly glad that we had a couple of dozen wet bales to feed to cut down on lugging freezing cold buckets of water around :mad:

TUBBY

i agree with ye lads. very handy but was just worried they would not keep. nothing worse than openin 80 bags of muck next nov.

good to know that low dmd better job to preserve, cheers

what happen

i had some bales of silage that were wet and i left them for the next year and i opened them they were very dry i could not belive it.

leg wax

if they are not muck now why would they be in nov.keep them .