The weather has been great this week, so we’re taking advantage of the great conditions and like the saying says we’re make hay while the sun shines.
Our hay is made by cutting high quality grass, letting it dry in the sun, then baling the dried forage.
After a day or so after cutting, depending on warm weather conditions, which in the last we we defainly have had the prefect conditions for making haylage. We then ted the hay to help it dry out faster, using a tedder. Once the hay is dry enough to bale, we use a rake, which rakes the hay up into a windrow to bale.
We also make our own small bale hay, for use primarily for the spring to feed to our ewes. The ewes lambed in our sheds, are older ewes, first time mothers or ones expecting two or more, when they have lambed in their individual pens and fed on wads of little bale hay.
Our last harvest is pit silage which the cows eat during the winter months.
When we have a week of guaranteed dry weather, we really try and harvest as much as we possibly can. We are self-sufficient in our fodder for our animals in the winter ans early spring months.
