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Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 9:00 am Post subject: Big Bale Silage !

Anybody started feeding there stock on this stuff this year ?
If you are buying in you could be in for a bit of a shock !

Its in short supply this year and I've heard reports of it going for as much a ï¿½36 per bale. Small traditional hay bales might be as high as a fiver in some areas.
Our regularl supplier is charging us ï¿½70 for three big haylage bales delivered , which is very good.
His stuff is different this year and the first one we have used has had lots of thistles in it. My poor hands are like a pin cushion, I should be having some fun with the pin in the next few day. Although I can feel the little blighters I can't see them at the moment.

@Calli

Joined: 03 Jul 2005
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Location: Galway

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 9:26 am Post subject:
20 euro per bale off neighbour...

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 10:17 am Post subject: Re: Big Bale Silage !

bodger wrote:

Anybody started feeding there stock on this stuff this year ?
If you are buying in you could be in for a bit of a shock !

Wow how many do you need to last the winter? I'll sell you ALL mine & buy some more LOL. ï¿½70 for 3 bales even delivered sounds like way to much. Cant see the beef boys paying that.

Justme

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 10:31 am Post subject:
This is horsey boys prices. No ragwort in it . 3 bales lasts a month. Will be coming past your place with smelly daughter and horse in about 10 mins or so on the way to Caernarfon. Maroon Terrano and Maroon Ifor Wiliams. Give us a wave . Good job the cricket is on the radio.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 12:10 pm Post subject:

bodger wrote:

This is horsey boys prices. No ragwort in it .
3 bales lasts a month.
Will be coming past your place with smelly daughter and horse in about 10 mins or so on the way to Caernarfon.
Maroon Terrano and Maroon Ifor Wiliams. Give us a wave .

Good job the cricket is on the radio.

Missed you lol. Dont you go the other way over the hill / twisty road? Dont ALL farmers make silage with no ragwort? But I know what you mean about horse prices. For some reason put "horse" on the label & double / treble the price. Dont you buy halage not silage? Last year we bought bales for ï¿½10 each from farm next door so dead handy for collection too. Made 47 bales this year from one field 9about 8 acres but very low yeald this year as I fert late & cut early). Could have done a second cut & more fields but dint need any more. I have enough to feed one bale every 4 days for a standard (180 days) winter. So if they come in on nov 1st they go out on 29th april. looking at the weather we wont bring them in till a bit later & get them out sooner too so it should go further. If its starting to look like we will run out I'll sell / butcher (freezer space permiting) another animal.

Justme

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 12:52 pm Post subject:

bodger wrote:

Good job the cricket is on the radio.

Sure about that dear

Although some would say that both teams ideally would like to lose this one, so they have time at home before the Ashes tour

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 2:53 pm Post subject:

Bodger - that seems very expensive even so - I have local hay from my neighbour for ï¿½2.50 a small bale and bought in from a nearby merchant for ï¿½3.50 (it's fantastic stuff I wish I had bought some more) They were getting in some long fibre organically grown as well and didn't expect the price to be much higher and they are big heavy bales. Haylage is costing not much more - can't imagine someone ripping you off - but try ringing around.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 5:15 pm Post subject:
Ruby I'm told that its going to be in short supply this year. The general opinion is to get it while you can.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
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Location: Eastoft

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 5:27 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

Although some would say that both teams ideally would like to lose this one, so they have time at home before the Ashes tour

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 5:32 pm Post subject:
Bodger - Iwas told this because of the dry start and not many seem to have taken second crops but... I already had mine in, it's reserved every year. Plus I had to get in over a hundred of last years for a laminitic who hasn't been on grass all summer poor thing.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 5:39 pm Post subject:
You also have to remember that this is not a good area for making large amounts of hay silage or straw so its nearly all trucked in if you dont make your own. Justme

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat Oct 21, 06 8:01 pm Post subject:

Are we talking about silage or haylage (+ï¿½20 a bale

) here?

Just finished wrapping 150 (silage), but we shouldn't need them all (one every other through to every 1.5 days), hoping to get the cows out earlier this time, the wet Spring 2006 gave us the latest turn out ever (it seems to have been one month dry, one wet all year)

Plenty of growth now though will keep stock out longer this winter I expect.

Something to think about though... in the bale it costs at least three times as much as in the field (ie grazed).

FrankieBeans

Joined: 07 Oct 2006
Posts: 14

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 06 6:16 pm Post subject:
Bodger's daughter here. He was talking about haylage, not silage.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 06 6:21 pm Post subject:
We have a deal with oneof the local farmers who comes in and does our silage cutting, bales it and takes it away - then we collect just what we need and the farmer gets to keep the rest in exchange for silaging for us.

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