| Title: | Equine Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151 |
| Moderator: | MTADMS::COBURN IO |
| Created: | Tue Feb 11 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2080 |
| Total number of notes: | 22383 |
I have searched through this whole file to get some info on
mouldy hay and still have a question:
How do you know when a bale is mouldy when: it is not wet,
it is not hot in the center, and has no mouldy matter on it?
I recently bought 4 bales from a local farm here in Concord N.H.
and 2 of the 4 look suspect! (by this I mean, the bales are slightly
darker, and don't have that pleasant aroma). This is mostly grass
hay with some timothy.
The barn where I used to board my horse had superb alfalfa hay so
I was never exposed to what a mouldy bale looked like. I now
have my horse at home so I'm going through that trial and error
stage and I don't want my horse to suffer from my error!
Tina
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 585.1 | check for dust! | SALEM::RATAY | Tue May 24 1988 12:38 | 4 | |
There will be a definite moldy odor from the hay when you break
it apart, and a moldy bale tends to be dusty when you shake it out.
If you look very close at the stems of the hay you probably could
see some of the mold. hope this helps.
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| 585.2 | DUST????? | BOEHM::SCHLENER | Tue May 24 1988 17:40 | 5 | |
As far as I know, moldy hay isn't the only hay to have alot of dust
in it. I think the description of moldy hay in .0 is alot more accurate
a description than the presence of dust.
Cindy
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