Costs of making haylage v hay

[ahlam1399]

I currently with work and own horses, if they are ridden am pretty much doing 12 hours solid horses at the moment. Trying to think how I can cut that time down or at least better use it so I fit other stuff in. The only way I can see that I can cut corners is by using haylage rather than hay. Filling, soaking, draining haynets for 5 who are on it 24/7 is probably my most time consuming job. Everything else I think I have pretty fine tuned. The amount of forage I use over a winter would literally bankrupt me if I had to pay but we are lucky enough to be able to make hay. Not off our land but someone asked o/h to cut and get rid of grass from his fields so we bale it and it's become a yearly thing. The farm he works for has a quadrant baler so I get 6 string hay bales for free other than string and time. I use about 15 a year. I'm wondering what it would cost me to wrap and bale as haylage instead? Also I'm worried we might get it wrong and end up with mouldy rubbish. 😫

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