Score! We Have Idiot Bales

Great news! We just scored idiot bales, er, I mean small square bales. I hope it's good hay. It's always so hard to know what you're buying sight unseen. But the guy was willing to sell them for $2.50 per bale and I haven't been able to find anything under $3. It's ditch grass but I think that'll hold Maverick for the summer. I'm going to get stuck paying some fuel costs but it still means I'm paying less than $3 a bale (I think. I can't do math!)

The guy is going to deliver them tomorrow evening. I guess some of the bales have loose strings so it could get a little intersting. Sounds like there's 100 to 150 bales. Yikes! Mike better take some benadryl.

Now I need to figure out where to put them. I never really thought about where to put them when I had Mike give the guy a call. I just knew I needed the hay. I'm guessing I'll just stick them in the hay shed instead of the hay barn. I want to save the hay barn for the straw we just picked up.

I'm just hoping they aren't crap. I guess if they are, I can always take them down to Kramers or save them until this fall/winter and sell them later on. I hate to say it but some people are willing to feed their horses anything. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that it's good ditch grass (although I'm pretty picky about my hay). I don't consider ditch grass high quality but I don't need the high grade hay since it's summer and I'll be putting Maverick out on lawn pasture in a short while. Also, Maverick isn't a hard keeper so ditch grass should be ok.

I was realy starting to panic. I have enough from the last big square to last me through Thursday night. After that, I was going to have to just dump Maverick out on grass and his system isn't ready yet for 100% grass grazing. He needs to work up to it and if he's out on pasture I'll never work with him. So, today really is looking up even more.

Tis the season for small squares. We've now loaded up the straw bales on Sunday and will hopefully start unloading those bales tonight (weather pending). And Wednessday we'll unload the hay. Hopefully it won't be raining. The guy said they've never gotten wet. Keep your fingers crossed that it's good ditch grass.