Buying Hay

All those hay bales we had from last summer went pretty fast once the cold weather set in. Once the temperatures drop, the grass stops growing and it only takes a few weeks for the cows to eat everything available. We started giving them hay at the beginning of December. The cows have been eating 4-5 bales a week, so what we had lasted about 6 weeks.

We needed to buy more hay, but it became clear that it was an issue for other people because we had some difficulty getting someone to deliver bales for us. We eventually got a friend of a friend to deliver 17 bales (@$25/bale) which we had hoped would last until warm weather. But the cows have eaten almost all of that, too.

While we wait for more bales to be delivered, Neighbor has kindly sold us a few of his bales to help us out.