Typical.
I cleaned out my hay shed once and took a short break for lunch only to look outside and see my horses feasting on moldy hay bales that were going to be tossed out. While ignoring good hay in their stalls.
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Sounds about right.
I’m rehabbing one of my paddocks and as part of that have an annual cover crop of a special (read expensive) type of pearl millet. It’s absolutely gorgeous and lush and I was so very excited to let the horses start grazing it. On the awaited day, horses acted like they couldn’t possibly eat this grass and cruised around trying to get the rando vegetation growing near the fence lines. Bored with that, they broke two boards in that fence and returned to the dry lot to beg for more alfalfa hay 
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Tedding can also (& used to be) done by hand.
For the small amount OP asked about, I just wanted to let them know raking into rows & tedding to dry is safer than just filling a wheelbarrow.
My hayguys cut and bale a small L-shaped field that surrounds my pastures & barn.
Normal take off it is 100-150 small (40-50#) squares.
This year, with the drought, 1st cutting was only 50. 2nd might be better, we’re getting some rain, just not enough.
So I’m familiar with how a field looks before & after being cut, tedded & baled.
I’ve helped them pick up bales from fields they lease.
I get the easy job, driving the truck hauling the wagon while son bucks bales onto it.
Sometimes following Dad with the baler 
I have always been in the do not feed category. No real science behind it other than it is not cured properly, is usually quite thick and clumpy and my horses don’t need it.
I found out my nephew did feed some to my horses( once) after he mowed my in- laws yard. It was just a small amount, very fresh, they inhaled it and they suffered no ill effects and I asked him nicely to never do it again.
I had a friend who raised mini horses who always fed grass clippings with never an issue. I just didn’t want to take the chance.
