I ’m certain you ’ve seen this pic float around social medium .
That is so funny to me and to other Fannie Merritt Farmer and rancher . Yes , they really do look like marshmallow . What you are see is actually dried pasture hay rolled up into a 1500 - Cypriot pound tight Basel and wrap with plastic wrap to protect the hay from weather weather and moisture .
There can be different size of marshmallows . Little squares , big squares , little round bales and big pear-shaped bales . On my farm , we prefer the large round bales .
As young husbandman , we are not that technical . We just use simple string wrap to contain our bale .
Stocking up on hay Basel for the winter is an important task of raising livestock . We bale what we can from our own property – around 100 bales . Since our farm animal number are growing this winter , we did some simple math and adjudicate to look for some more Bale to purchase .
The number of cows we own now consume around 4 Bale of hay per week in the heavy winter months . The sheep and goats will squander 1 - 2 bales per week during the heavy wintertime calendar month . One positive unknown is that we have the rains this class have been rich and our pasture at home still have plenty of grass for our livestock to browse for quite a while after they retrovert from their summertime pastures next month .
I ’m being affirmative and bright that we wo n’t need to start feeding hay until the first part of December . Knowing that tidbit , since we will be feed from December to the end of March , I ’m calculate we would need a total of 100 bales , which does n’t go out much for our emergency reticence .
Lucky for us , a neighbour was sell 100 Basel of brome hay at a great price . We jump on the bandwagon and bought them all . One things you ’ll learn is that husbandry is high-risk business and you have to plan your resources and keep your provision well pile in case something come up .
Something always comes up.
Now , the next task is impress those bales about 15 miles home to our house where all our stock will be housed . Our flatbed lagger hold three Bale so we have just a small over 30 trip to make .
Back and Forth. Back and Forth. Back and Forth. Moving marshmallows home is a lengthy process!
Everyone is involved in the move process . It ’s a nice time to be together as a family , lecture , laugh and sing . It ’s good experience than it sound .
When we arrive at the hay field with our motortruck and trailer , there is a tractor waiting for us . Matt ’s parents only go a few miles from the hay arena , so he had brought a tractor with a hay crotch over from there . And it will continue there until the job is done .
Matt hops onto the tractor , fires it right up and gets to body of work raise the oddment bales and setting them strategically on the dawdler . It is an artistic creation .
Another thing about our marshmallows . Since we do n’t utilise the wrapper , they look sort of like perfectly roast marshmallows . Not to glum or light . Just how I like them .
Well , when the three Bale are loaded onto the trailer , Matt straps them on and we are off to our place to discharge them . With the nothingness blowing through our ears .
When we go far house , there is our tractor waiting to unload the bales . Matt hop on , arouse it up and drop off those bales . He line them up end to finish . He ’s getting really good at it .
And then . You guess it . We do it all again until the darkness settles in . Until the occupation is done .
Right now , we are about 10 trips into our marshmallow move journey . It ’s just another part of being a responsible livestock producer and receive lot of healthy sustenance for the animals during the most extreme temperatures we will be facing after on this Winter .
What tedious job are you front with before Winter hits ?
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