Some soil/ mud found in haylege

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I am so paranoid after hearing about whole yards of horses dying of botulism ? I've found a lump of mud in my otherwise good appearing bale of haylege it's from a new supplier. Haylege is dark around the deposit of soil.
Is this OK to discard and feed rest of bale? Or should I burn the bale to hell?
 
Personally I wouldn't use it and I would be very wary of the rest of the batch - stand to be corrected though. Is the haylage wet or dry? When was it made?
 
The soil/mud, is it wet?
I’d discard the bit around it maybe, the discoloured part.
I don’t use haylage myself but at work we often get a chunk of soil or stones in it, we chuck it and carry on using.
Sometimes they just cut a bit low and earth ends up being baled
 
I've had this with hay before. I've just tossed the dirt clod out and carried on.

With haylage I would toss any area that doesn't look or smell normal and likely carry on, but at the same time haylage sort of frightens me so probably not ?

However, if it is going to eat away at you, just toss the bale. Not worth the stress. It could be a one off and I wouldn't be concerned about the rest, but would pay attention. I think we had 2 or 3 bales with added earth in them, and the rest (50 some odd) were fine.
 
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Yeah I was tossing the soil and darker bits away and they don't smell right (sicky earthy almost strong dog smell?) but came across more so just going to discard the bale and opens the next one fingers crossed its OK.
 
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