Hay Reviews

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 style=" border-top: 10px solid #000000; border-left: 10px solid #000000;border-right: 10px solid #000000; border-bottom: 10px solid #000000;" BGCOLOR="#CC9999" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" "><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>   </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>     </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 style=" border-top: 10px solid #000000; border-left: 10px solid #000000;border-right: 10px solid #000000; border-bottom: 22px solid #000000;" BGCOLOR="#FF9966" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>OKLAHOMA AND SURROUNDING AREAS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>HAY </B></div> <div> <B>REVIEW</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Send me your pictures of hay and your review and I will post it either way</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Good Hay </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Bad Hay</B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" style=" border-top: 10px solid #000000; border-left: 20px solid #000000;border-right: 20px solid #000000; border-bottom: 36px solid #000000;" BGCOLOR="#FFCC80" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Hay Reviews</I></div> <div> We had a horrible 2006, so when the rains came in 2007 we thought our problems were over. Unfortunately it rained and rained and rained.  So here is the dilemma.  If you are a farmer growing alfalfa and it rained and rained and ruined your hay crop, do you accept your loss or do you pass it on to others?  </div> <bR> <div> We have not had much luck with hay this year.   First we bought bermuda that turned out to be really prairie hay with no food value because it grew so fast.  </div> <bR> <div> Then we went to the Haynet to look for more hay listings. We decided on alfalfa/grass big squares, barn-stored.   This was the advertisement on the Haynet:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="79370920.png" border=0 width="624" height="146" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> We were able to use some of that for bedding and meanwhile our horses are going downhill in conditioning. </div> <bR> <div> Back to the hay listings: <A HREF="http://www.hayexchange.com/hay.htm " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hayexchange.com/hay.htm ">http://www.hayexchange.com/hay.htm </A>and we found an ad for alfalfa in Enid from _________. In a call to him he claimed it was never rained on, third cutting, alfalfa with a little bit of crabgrass. These were round bales.  </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Here is the ad: <IMG SRC="79b78640.png" border=0 width="632" height="356" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The shipper needed to make two trips for the hay. The first load of hay had some mold on the outside of the bale, so we called him and told him we were worried about the mold, intending it foname tear inr pregnant mares. He said not to worry .. they were put up right and there would be no mold inside, that the only mold would be where the bales had touched each other end-to-end.  The second load was delivered at night and we could not see it until the next morning.   Well obviously he didn't think we would be buying hay from him again   .... because this is what he sent us.  </div> <bR> <div> This is one of the better bales from the second load. This is after we peeled away about 1/3 of the bale: (P.S. the goat is searching through the hay looking for some parts that are not molded). </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="john_enns_hay"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="79890e10.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="79a90e10.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> It is not snowing outside... that is mold                                                 Still rolling out layers of mold through-and-through </div> <bR> <div> That load cost us $1750 including delivery...  My husband has been coughing all night. I don't know why. </div> <bR> <div> We have peeled off more than one foot of hay (see pad that the bale is sitting on) and finally patches of hay are showing through the mold. (Look closely towards the rear of the bale, you will see some brown). I used to like to see <B>green</B> alfalfa inside a bale, now I am settling for <B>brown</B>! There may be some hay in there after all! What hay is there is <A HREF="#stalk" TITLE="Hay Reviews">100% stalk, with no leaf.</A> Obviously this was baled wet in the spring; obviously rained on as there is no green at all in the bales and definitely not the third cutting he said it was. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="79d3ce10.jpg" border=0 width="316" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    <A NAME="stalk"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="79f90e10.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </div> <bR> <div> This bale cost us $66, including delivery. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="7a12ca90.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="169" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="7a390e10.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> The white hay is all mold. </div> <bR> <div> The grower was 2 1/2 hours away from us, or we would have inspected the hay before we bought it.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Ethics</B>?  So if you have a bad hay crop, who should take the loss. Should it be the farmer or the buyer. </div> <bR> <div> P.S. There is a very good hay grower in Cushing OK (but out of hay right now) who puts up excellent, green, lush alfalfa with no mold internally. His name is Brian Harrison.  If he had a drop of hay right now, we would not have had to go here. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>