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chopping hay

  • 27-06-2018 8:02pm
    #1
    annubis
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    lads got use of a few meadows,they would be idle for a while , cut the other evening, this stuff would have no fert got but would be very high grass, longest i ever cut, wondering will cattle pull alot of it in when feeding, would it be any good to run the knives on baler or should i just bag it as hay ledge?


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  • #2
    Dakota Dan
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    annubis wrote: »
    lads got use of a few meadows,they would be idle for a while , cut the other evening, this stuff would have no fert got but would be very high grass, longest i ever cut, wondering will cattle pull alot of it in when feeding, would it be any good to run the knives on baler or should i just bag it as hay ledge?

    Make hay of it, if you have diagonal barriers they'll pull in very little, don't bother chopping it..


  • #3
    Bitten & Hisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Bitten & Hisses


    I chopped some hay by accident back in 2010 - very light crop, rowed with a haybob which wasn’t dense enough to push down the knives in the baler. The bales were much heavier, but the cows ate it. Once you open the bale it’ll break up easier. Otherwise, I saw no downside.


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