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  • From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] chicken silage
  • Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:34:33 -0600


Define, someone, please, the terms "baleage" and 'haylage' for me--
Silage (haylage) is made in a silo. Baleage is made in a bale.

Modern round balers, especially with plastic wrap, are used to bale hay before it is dry, sometimes treated with an innoculant, and the bales are sealed either individually or in a 'tube', and allowed to ferment as the hay would if put into a silo.

Not to be confused with just making hay with modern balers (square or round) with innoculant used to burn up the oxygen and moisture and speed up the process of getting the hay off the field.

My neighbor found out the hard way that this doesn't always work, especially if done by the average Joe Tractor Driver and doubly so if you expected to feed horses with the half-moldy result.

Dan C

Making hay the hard way: when the sun shines.






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