DONE! YAY!

This past weekend we put the last of this years hay crop in the barn. YAY!!!! Had perfect weather, lots of help, a few drinks, lots of laughs.
On top of it all my new truck was broke in in the hay field. Will hold over 70 bales without protesting!

Now I can kick back knowing that over 900 bales are stowed away from the weather and my critters can eat for another year!


200 bales less than normal but I had left overs from last season...

It's a GOOD Day

That is a very satisfying feeling, I love seeing a full hay loft. sadly we're a couple weeks behind everyone else up here, got about 1/3 of ours in by midnight last night, hope to do another 1/3 later this week, then second cut and rolls late august.

I'm still on the hunt for hay around here. They've only just started to cut. My supplier from last year isn't cutting this year, which leaves our equine community short 8400 bales. I'm hoping I can find some local instead of having to buy some "from away". The $10/bale (about 40 lbs) puts too much of a dent in the old pocketbook. Ugh!

Ahhh, I can't imagine paying $10/square bale Tammy, insane!

Congrats on getting your hay in MC. When I hear/think of all of you slaving out in the heat we've had the last few days I'm glad I buy my hay as I need it throughout the winter.....

The hay season is just starting in our area. It is really hot and humid this week so not the ideal weather. We have been feeding out what we had left over from last year so the loft will be full of new hay.....love the smell. Thumbs up to everyone who has the task behind them.

That's awesome!

I have about a month and a half worth of hay left and my supplier should be cutting any day. We get it off the field as soon as it's cut, so unless we have a terrible July for weather, I should be just fine.

woo hoo for you..............wanna come cut mine..........i have a lovely 12 acre field not being cut again this year.........but instead of putting away 4oo for my guys.........I only need 150 ......and maybe less.....that I can pick up 4 or 6 at a time and have enough room upstairs in the barn for a DANCE..........

We've started. We haul a wagon behind the tractor and baler and stack the wagon as they come off the baler. As my Mother in law and I were stacking the wagon and I was sweating and chaffing in places I forgot could sweat, I had to wonder why I have horses lol. And we hadn't even got around to unloading yet. At least the kids are old enough to help. They had loaded the first wagon, but it is on a hill and some of the bales slid off, luckily no kids went with it, but it scared them a bit. So they were charged with getting us all supper and unloading the wagons.

We still have lots to do, we keep cattle as well. Although the comments a few have made about their hay suppliers not haying has me wondering what the horse community will do as farmers retire and there is no one to take their place. Farming is still fairly hard work and it seems very few are choosing it as a vocation any more.

Woo woo! First load in the loft - and the boys needed the wagon, so they came back and helped hubby put it up...Sweet!
Now we need another load for the other shed, and were done, too...unfortunately, we can only get one load from the first guys - they do us up a wagon more as a favor, they use all round bales with the cattle, other than one wagon full for the spring calves. Too bad, it's real nice hay too! But it sure feels good to have it started!