Seeding pastures?

[dianneS]

You could also graze your few animals on your pasture and have someone mow it twice a year and bale it for you. The mowing will take care of the grasses your animals do not and you could benefit from the hay for winter feed.

Would I have to remove the animals from the pasture before mowing and baling? If so, how long before the mowing would I remove them?

I would really like to mow and bale our pasture (and our neighbors, she said we're welcome to her hay too!) ourselves. I would love to have a sicle bar mower and a walk behind baler! That would be perfect for our situation!

Does anyone still make hay the old fashioned way, before balers? Just pile it up in the mow?? I know the amish still do.

 

[Beekissed]

Freemotion does! She cuts hers with a scythe and stores it loose. She has pics! I would love to do this also....it would be kind of cool to have draft horses and have the horse-drawn equipment necessary to put up hay the slow and sure way.

Of course, if I stored it loose in my barn it would be full of eggs before long, in various stages of rot.

 

[dianneS]

Freemotion does! She cuts hers with a scythe and stores it loose. She has pics! I would love to do this also....it would be kind of cool to have draft horses and have the horse-drawn equipment necessary to put up hay the slow and sure way.

Of course, if I stored it loose in my barn it would be full of eggs before long, in various stages of rot.

No kidding? That's so cool! I just rescued an old scythe from my grandfathers barn before the farm was sold! I have plenty of hay loft space, nice and dry too, even if we still buy bales we'd have room for loose hay. Maybe I'll look into this for now, until I get that mower and walk behind baler!