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My bale of massive haylage is out side the stable block next to a tie ring. There are many new tie rings around but the livery in the next stable keeps tying her ned right next to my haylage in the morning when she mucks out, her ned pulls rugs off and chomps happily away for an hour or so every morning. I have written on the bale previously "please do not let your horse eat my haylage" I have mentioned before that its not on (I am going through one large bale every 8-9 days it used to last me 2½ weeks minimum).
Low and behold i arrive their this morning and the neds chomping away, - livery rushes out when sees me arrive and takes ned in stable. Livery is very aware of it and seems not to give a toss. I cannot move bale its enourmous.
I again politely told livery not to tie up next to my bale this morning - heres hoping they listen.
I am sooo cross
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You could take a screwdriver to the yard and remove that tie ring....
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I would and have in the past removed tie rings. I used to do pony in the morning and haynet was at front of stable by door as pony was a socialite!
When I went back in the evening net would be hanging over door half empty!!
Every Tom Dick and Harriet would be using it as a fast food tie up for their horse so...tie up ring was removed from outside.
 
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(I am going through one large bale every 8-9 days it used to last me 2½ weeks minimum).


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isn't it gone "off" by then???
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god no, OP haylage lasts a month

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if thats the case....i'd go down the screwdriver route!!!
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remove tie ring, or tell everyone your horse has "undiagnosed cough" and has been spluttering all over your haylage, at best tell them to get lost and tie somewhere else!!

Or large sign saying "your horse eats it, you pay for it"!!
 
Can you put a small tarpaulin or even a cotton sheet over it, just to stop the munching? A sheet shouldn't affect its keeping qualities in any way.

If its one of those massive square haylage bales that are about 3 feet in each direction,you could get something like a cheap single fitted sheet and cover it with that.
 
I thought once opened it fermented or somthing and had to be used within 3-4 days - One reason I'd only use it on a big yard where it gets eaten quickly. My first thought was they were doing you a favour by using it up
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Just had a quick look, this from a manufacturer's website
...The general recommendation is that once opened you should use up a bale within 7 days, ....

And this form a college's:
...If you use big bales of haylage they do heat up. Ideally the bale needs to be used within four days. The dryer the haylage the longer it can be left after opening as fermentation will not take place.

Be aware that mould may start to develop once the bale is open. Do not feed white or black patches from the bale.
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I thought once opened it fermented or somthing and had to be used within 3-4 days - One reason I'd only use it on a big yard where it gets eaten quickly. My first thought was they were doing you a favour by using it up
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Just had a quick look, this from a manufacturer's website
...The general recommendation is that once opened you should use up a bale within 7 days, ....

And this form a college's:
...If you use big bales of haylage they do heat up. Ideally the bale needs to be used within four days. The dryer the haylage the longer it can be left after opening as fermentation will not take place.

Be aware that mould may start to develop once the bale is open. Do not feed white or black patches from the bale.
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farmer doesn't quiet soak his bales like normal haylage, it more like hay but wrapped, i call it haylage cause its wrapped, (just convenient for me to say that - 'post' isn't about life span of haylage -i:
believe me someone else using my hay/haylage isn't a convenience for me
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I know post isnt about haylage, but you can feed white bits in haylage just not black.
I had a similar problem a few weeks ago, some1 ran out of their haylage (they get horsehage) so used mine (come in a huge bale like yours) so when they next got theirs delivered I took a bale of their horsehage back! They didnt do it again!
 
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