This 'Avon' sounds like a truly mythical place indeed.
I noticed a change in hay storage after a year. And some of my horses and sheep wouldn't eat it if it were that old. The cows sometimes would. Year old hay used to be sold for less money. Now that the hay market in Texas has gone nuts due to the insane weather, all bets are off.
I would have bought hay pellets (dehydrated, chopped, pressed into pellets) before I'd bought hay over two years old. Ten year old hay? I'd have burned it.
Rodents *always* got into it and in Texas, you have to worry about it spontainiously combusting, either because it might be too wet/green or because it's August and it's in a tin roofed shed. :(
Putting slatted pallets under the stack for air circulation helped some. A solid platform is next to useless. Might as well put it on the ground.
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I noticed a change in hay storage after a year. And some of my horses and sheep wouldn't eat it if it were that old. The cows sometimes would. Year old hay used to be sold for less money. Now that the hay market in Texas has gone nuts due to the insane weather, all bets are off.
I would have bought hay pellets (dehydrated, chopped, pressed into pellets) before I'd bought hay over two years old. Ten year old hay? I'd have burned it.
Rodents *always* got into it and in Texas, you have to worry about it spontainiously combusting, either because it might be too wet/green or because it's August and it's in a tin roofed shed. :(
Putting slatted pallets under the stack for air circulation helped some. A solid platform is next to useless. Might as well put it on the ground.