hows everyones hay coming on .All our cut now!

[Finlib]

with the heatwave heading into full force cut our hay field on Saturday bumper crop should be ready to bale wednesday/thursday.
Hayledge field cut on Monday looking good though slightly lighter crop as it was grazed until early March should be ready to wrap in a couple of days time.
How is everyone else doing .Still have 8 big bales of last years hay which there is a lot of demand for but hanging on to it for the time bein until all is safely gathered in .Hopefully there shouldn't be a shortage of hay and hayledge this year

 

[AmyMay]

Whilst I don’t make it myself, the tractors around here are all going at full pelt. Everyone taking full advantage of the weather it seems.

 

[milliepops]

OH has got a few fields down, one hasn't got a lot on but the other looks good. Lots more still growing. He has promised me more small bales this year to save on wrap cost, whoo hooooo!

 

[poiuytrewq]

We can’t cut our usual fields until a certain date but was offered another large area to do so that got mowed yesterday evening. It’s crazily thick.
I’m not sure really if I’ll use it though, it might just be a bit too good for mine. It was planted for horse grazing a few summers ago but never used. It’s meadow grasses not rye but I still wonder if early cut and so lovely it may not be suitable.
Nice to have the option though as last year mine got ruined at the last minute so if we happen to have another disaster at least I’ll have this stuff to fall back on which might be absolutely fine, I don’t know!

 

[PurBee]

Thats a salty wound topic! I do some hay but deer grazing really can affect growth and only this morning i was looking at it and wondering whether i should even bother or just turn the horses out onto it….its sparser than hoped for. Weather-wise, it’s cloudy with sporadic rain forecast until 23rd june.

 

[Peglo]

We have a couple of months yet before hay gets cut ? we are north isles though. First cut silage has been done right enough.
last years hay was brilliant but we’d actually had a bit of a drought so didn’t get much off the field. ?? For another good year.

 

[sport horse]

Last bales being stacked in barn as I type. Lovely sweet smelling hay.

 

[oldie48]

I got up yesterday to the sound of a tractor working away in our big field. It is looking thicker than usual as it hasn't been grazed by horses for two years. I dread to think how much the bailing and wrap will cost this year but as I've given the crop to a friend it's not my problem. I look forward to seeing the paddocks tidy with a few sheep on them and I've got a couple of youngsters coming for a holiday at the end of the eventing season, it will be good to have a couple of nice horses to look at.

 

[HashRouge]

Thats a salty wound topic! I do some hay but deer grazing really can affect growth and only this morning i was looking at it and wondering whether i should even bother or just turn the horses out onto it….its sparser than hoped for. Weather-wise, it’s cloudy with sporadic rain forecast until 23rd june.

My YO is convinced that her hay field doesn't grow well because she lets us graze it in the autumn, and is convinced the horses need to be off it before the end of October. She was a bit surprised when this made naff all difference, so I gently suggested it might be the hundreds of deer that come up and graze it when the horses aren't there!

 

[Ratface]

Ours is going full pelt, and (touching wood, fingers crossed etc) is going well. YO is driving the new, all bells and whistles, monster tractor at pace, doing the tractor equivalent of handbrake turns with brio and elan! Hell's Horse Granny Rides Again! Yee Haaah!!

 

[TheMule]

My haylage was cut today- all looks good, great crop this year

 

[Horseysheepy]

We have alot of grass down at the moment!

OH is just doing it's second ted of the day. This is seeds, so we need to get that moisture out of it.
Baling into rounds this Friday.
We've got about 5 acres at home and another 7 acres a mile away that is beautiful meadow hay that can be made whenever, as it makes so easily.
Love this time of year, but it's stressful!