What have you found in a bale of hay?

Nothing quite that interesting!! Used to get a fair amount of dried poo, where the liveries of the farm let their horses poo in the hay field :rolleyes:
 
A snake. It was sticking out of the bale having been caught up in the baler (it was sadly dead) and that bale was left aside as the blokes doing the stacking wouldn't touch it. Wimps!
 
sheep body parts. my horse refused to eat his hay one night-we were feeding a whole yard from a round bale. he got quite agitated, striking out at it and snorting alot-it wasnt until we got further through the bale that we started finding bits of dead sheep!
 
peteralfred said:
sheep body parts. my horse refused to eat his hay one night-we were feeding a whole yard from a round bale. he got quite agitated, striking out at it and snorting alot-it wasnt until we got further through the bale that we started finding bits of dead sheep!
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Good god, thats horrible.:eek: did you get your money back?
 
A few rabbits feet, don't think they felt very lucky..... and in a bale of straw this winter a wallet. Well chewed by the rats, with several nectar points cards, and a two pound coin inside, which was great, as we'd been short changed that morning by someone exchanging the £2 coin we should have had with a 2p. So we ended up 2p up lol!!!!!
 
I've never found anything of interest!

Just your usual stones, random bits of bailer twine, sweet wrappers. I should think myself lucky!
 
A left over rat has been about the most interesting item. Small bale got thrown away. Sometimes a few flints turn up in them, some are impressive in size too - Iam not sure how it didn't harm the baler?!

However last winter in a bale of aubiose, as I opened it into stable a FAMILY of rats ran out, 6 baby ones scampering in all directions. I caught 4 (impressive I thought!!), 2 I couldn't find, mummy rat was very sleepy/half dead anyway, so got her with the aid of the spaniel, daddy rat ran off - very annoying! Made me jump a mile at first though!
 
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Part of a dead lamb (many years ago), just recently a whole dead rabbit, the long metal loop top part of electric fencing farmers use for cattle (two days ago), a rubber marigold glove, bits of cloth, squashed coke can and a crows wing over time.
 
Tigger! This was at a riding school, we found tiggers head, then his body then the rest of his tail.

Rip Tigger :p Winnie the pooh must be very sad :D
 
The usual, of a couple of squashed cans, dead rabbits/ mice/ a bird (ick!)

And once, barbed wire. Lots of it. That's what you get when you can only use the haylage the yard owner makes.

If i found sheep i would be annoyed though, they're a bit big to miss :/
 
Over the years we've found mice, birds, tennis ball, snake, and a trainer (shoe sort not person!). And of course, the usual sweet and crisp wrappers and other bits and bobs.
 
I found a rather large hedgehog which was alive so i think he managed to crawl in after the bale was unwrapped. I have found dead birds and mice too.
 
Rattlesnakes. LIVE rattlesnakes. Where I used to live, we routinely beat the bales with an old axe handle before sticking our hands in to drive the snakes out. They liked to curl up amongst them. :D
 
Broken windscreen glass in lots of small pieces. Not funny! Burnt metal from presumably the same car, and once, a million years ago, a live rat which jumped out and onto my shoulder as I lifted the bale up. Never screamed so loudly in all my life!!!
 
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