EMERGENCY 🆘 treatment for HEATING & MOLDING hay BALES the HOW to guide for reducing SPOILAGE!
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- We discuss Emergency treatment for heating HAY bales that may become spoiled due to MOLD and spoilage. This is a how to guide for both the beginner or veteran farmer when attempting to salvage HAY bales when they have been baled up with too high of moisture content and are heating up and causing spoilage. This scenario typically causes the Bale to HEAT from the core causing bacteria to grow. This process causes MOLD to be produced which can ultimately deem the BALE non useable as a Livestock Feed source. The bale will typically heat up depending on how DAMP/WET it was when processed and baled up. This can not only cause MOLD to spawn but can also cause a BALE to COMBUST. This can happen once the bales core temperature hits around the 170 Farenheit mark and beyond. Now how high of a temp. the bale hits is directly related to the moisture content of that bale. Heating takes place and rises inside the bale, as it is attempting to dry out that bale from the inside out. Usually at this point you have already lost the bale due to severe MOLD and carmelization caused by the heat and bacteria. I discuss how the strategic use of LOOSE SALT can be utilized to attempt to preserve or salvage portions of that HAY bale. When SALT is properly placed inside of the bale before or at the beginning of heating process one can SOMETIMES prevents or greatly decreases the amount of MOLD being produced and spread inside the bale. Now this isn't a normal process or treatment for HAY however it can be used on occasion in an EMERGENCY to greatly decrease the amount of wasted HAY or feed if you did not have access to BALE wrappers or Silage equipment. You can also bale hay somewhat more damp successfully if you have a HAY preservative on your baler whether it be liquid form or granulated powder such as SILO GUARD. In this video we also GO OUT and make some WILD HAY bales, so lets get going we have a lot of information and ground to COVER!
Beautiful day and scenery. Everything is beautiful over there. Love it!
Thanks for visiting👍
Good morning Aaron...how the heck ya doing??☕☕
Doing good my friend! ☕️☕️👍 Trying to chase after the kiddos since 6 a.m 🤣
yeah even making silage bales was a bit tuff this year the grass was under stress soba so early in June that the grass didn't have enough juice in it to properly ensile.
This entire year has been a much different BEAST!😱
I bale most my alfalfa hay at night. Baling during the heat of day all I get is sticks. Moisture tester would read 25-30% at times. Those are my best bales
The moisture/dampness definately holds the plant together better when baling.👍 Cheers 🍻 Wally. You done haying for the year yet?
@@PrairieSunsetRanch yeah lol. I had nothing to hay here really 😂. 250 acres older stand nothing grew to cut. I Cut what had a little bit. Just over 400 bales off 700 acres
@@wallyyuriy8912 What a year this has been. One for the books 4sure, time to open a new chapter and hopefully 2022 will be filled with a little better or more positive of stories 🤣👍
@@PrairieSunsetRanch can only hope….🍻
Cheers 🍻 Wally.👌
Ya got some good help there buddy hahaha. Little bugger
Oh yeah, He was givnr shit all day on those bales. Spilt probably 10 LBS of Salt onto the field by accident! 🤣
My brother had 3 bales that were super tough. He was worried they would burn so he set them on the garden. Be damned if one didn't burn down.
😯 Thats flipping hot for them to combust! Super curious what the temperature could have hit? Mine were VERY hot but climbed to around 162. 😱 Gotta keep a close eye on them, and really want to know as to what they look like inside when I unroll one here soon hopefully 👍
@@PrairieSunsetRanch yes crazy hot.
I would leave it, let it ferment and it will be better than any other hay!
Under the right conditions you are absolutely right.
Very informative video. thank you for sharing I have never heard of this. might give this a try one day with damp hay. see you next weekend beef baron.
Thank you Matt glad you found it interesting! 👍 Cheers 🍻 buddy.
You should have just used your bale spear a few times for the holes...or would that not work??
I have done that in the past but pending on the bale can make a little of a mess. These weren't necessarily wrapped the tightest. I knew they were probably gonna heat so I didn't want MASSIVE tight wrapped bales. Need it to sweat out a little so they were a lil sloppy. 👍
Great info thanks for the tips I had a haze so hard the other day that I could barely handle it with my hands when I touched it I think it was getting ready to blow up
Glad you enjoyed the video my friend! It is no fun dealing with heating hay. I was on edge a good while with these bales but they have seemed to have settled down finally.🤣👍
I've done the salt trick between layers stacking questionable small square bales. All the hay was good when I fed so it did something.
It's a great old trick that really does improve the preservation of possibly damp hay.👌🍻
Nice carmelization, cows candy!!!!!
Actually makes awesome feed, if it doesn't burn down the barn... We've pulled a few hundred bales out, spread them out to let them dry.. and salt the 💩 out of them!!!
Beautiful! 👌 These bales may turn out to be some decent feed after all.🤞Very curious to roll one out in near future.
Good luck on the green oats ? Always something ! Cheers buddy!🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻👍
Fingers crossed the feed doesn't mold. Put enough SALT that you'd think it wouldn't. Cheers 🍻 Shane.
We always salted our hay when we stacked them barn small squares every row even when was dry we go through 150lbs of mixing salt a year
👍 Salt is truly an amazing inhibitor for mold. Cheers 🍻 Bev and keep that hay salted 🤣🍻🍻🍻
The salt should do the trick. I was thinking you should have a preservative applicator and then you have one.😂👍 I run the liquid on the square balers and would like to add it to the round baler. Gotta love those strange noises.😵🍻
My other baler has the applicator which was at home. All my equipment was way out of my area baling hay so jumped on that field last second. Never thought 3rd growth would come in so hot and heavy as to impair the drying of the second cut oats!😱 That knocking usually is indicative of a bearing going out but in this case it just had to let the gremlins out!🤣🤣 👍
I really loved your video. It was intelligent, informative, and addressed a really important issue in a way that anybody could follow.
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Hi Daphne. Thank you for dropping by. I am sorry to hear you got stuck in an end of video cyclone. 😞 Cheers 🍻 and have a great night.
Great video and info!
Thanks Captain Kirk! 👍🍻🍻🍻🍻
Sample probe only holds so much... And a dead battery doesn't help 🙄
Guess not! A 🥃 or 🍺 can fix that!🤣🤣 Cheers 🍻 ED
They used to salt clover when they made stacks.
Interesting👍. I know my Great Grandparents would sprinkle loose salt in between the layers of square bales when stacking them in the dairy barn loft. That is probably how my grandfather, and father caught onto this trick with round bales.👌 Hows haying going for you now? Cheers 🍻 Albert.
@@PrairieSunsetRanch I get some hay put up between fixxing, I know better how much feed i'll have once i get my crops chopped into silage. Kind of foggy out today, be late start haying today.
@@albertrussell6546 👍 Yes it’s been a few damp mornings here too with a ton of dew and fog. All the best my friend, it looks like a great week coming up for for putting up feed🍻🍻
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I salt everything before I eat it 🤦♂️🤣🤣
Salt... The condiment of choice amongst todays true Athletes!🤣🤣🤣🍻
@@PrairieSunsetRanch hell yeah 🥇🏆 and a 🍺 😎
Garbage parts probably! I had bearings in the bale and combines that fell apart this year that I have changed in the recent past.
Chit, that sucks. I noticed for example John Deere carries some "John Deere" brand bearings that are stamped made in China. I've had a couple of those fail in 3-400 bales on the baler.🤬
@@PrairieSunsetRanchalmost exactly what we had. Bought national bearings. Take the bearing out of the package. Stamped made in China. No national marking on the bearing at all. On the combine pick ups the center of the bearing split and the balls stayed together and were running right on the shaft. In the baler one bearing made about 250bales and just blew up and fell apart like it was 40years old
think silage
Absolutely, the field I made these bales at were very far from home and I needed to transport my equipment back home. Guy needed it off ASAP as well otherwise I would have lined up a bale wrapper etc and done it proper 👍 Cheers 🍻 Brent