The four-year study — which included mild and very cold winters — showed that in mild winters, adding alfalfa hay bales or ...

The temperature of these hay bales, stacks, and barns can get very hot. In extreme cases, it can get so hot that the bales can catch on fire, even without a spark (i.e., spontaneous combustion).

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It pays to monitor hay and baleage before feeding it to livestock, Mississippi State University Extension forage specialist ...

This also assumes the cows consume 2.5% of their body weight per day on a dry matter basis, and each bale of ... to handle hay tarps during covering and uncovering the hay stack.

In late December, Sugar House Creamery stacked their last shipment of hay for ... square bales." "We're going to put it in our barn. We'll feed it out all winter to our 12 dairy cows," said ...

Hay that is baled under pressure does not ... a pride in building symmetrical and water-tight stacks, it will probably not be regretted by cattle that have to eat musty and badly-saved hay from ...