Margali's Griffin Wood Ranch

[Mini Horses]

Alfalfa is higher here. But all good grass is.

If it isn't young Alf, mine won't eat it. I use a lot of Alf pellets....less waste if too mature when cut for hay options. It's a crap shoot -- waiting to happen when you break open a bale.

 

[farmerjan]

Nearly all alfalfa is chopped here for first cutting. The stems are too stemmy as the alfalfa grows fast. If you get alfalfa, try to get 2nd or 3rd cutting. The stems are finer. And there is a grazing alfalfa that if made into hay is finer also.

 

[Baymule]

By the time alfalfa gets to Texas, nobody knows anything but alfalfa. Other states probably send us the first cutting because we don’t know any better. LOL

 

[Ridgetop]

Not all alfalfa is good alfalfa. DH and DS1 have become alfalfa connoiseurs. If the hay is baled too dry it will not peel into flakes, instead it just sort of drops apart and wastes. One time we got a load f hay that did that and by the time the kids carried the flakes to the feeders half of it had fallen on the ground and was wasted! DH had special places where he would buy his hay.