There must be something you feel IS bad about treated hay, or you wouldn’t be of the mindset you won’t buy it if treated, even though you have no idea what it’s treated with.
Like I said, the only treatment I’ve ever heard of is spraying with proprionic acid, and that’s GOOD thing, to make hay that might not end up good, BE good. Almost always it’s alfalfa, but depending on the baling conditions can be grass hays as well.
Because i don’t know what the hay is treated with i won’t buy/ feed it. I won’t feed my horses something i don’t know what it is… I can find out what they use to treat hay easy enough. I buy mostly alfa hay… have some grass bales and made horse sick.
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JB, have no idea what the hay is treated with i don’t buy it. I buy big rounds if it looks good smells good…good enough. If it got some dust then so be it, i have yet to buy hay that didn’t have some dust. Can’t quote or Edit no matter what i do it’s getting really annoying.[/QUOTE]
My neighbor in MN did custom baling and put up thousands of large squares of alfalfa off his fields every year. They did the acid spay on them because that allowed them to bale at a slightly higher moisture rate. There was no dust when feeding those bales.
We do round bales here for ourselves and a neighbor. There is no dust in the hay and there shouldn’t be. If there is dust or anything like it when you open a bale, it is mold and should not be fed.
You would be better off to buy from someone who uses the acid spray.
Someone said dusty hay from stacking flat rather than on cut side. ??
Thanks for the reply. This thread is a bit long in the tooth, but I got an email showing your reply.
Since I made the original post a few years (or haying seasons) ago, we’ve been busy raising and selling small square bales of Timothy. The Timothy dries out better than any hay I’ve ever raised - very forgiving. It is a pleasure to grow.
If it’s OK with the moderators, our website, FirstQualityHay.com
Thanks again everyone!
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