The process of making hay involves cutting grass or other plants, allowing them to dry in the sun, and then baling or storing them for later use. Grass, conversely, is a living plant that can be found in gardens, parks, and natural landscapes, growing freely and serving as a ground cove...
Alfalfa: The High Quality Hay for Horses.Glenn Shewmaker
George's hands stopped working with the cards. His voice was growing warmer. "An' we could have a few pigs. I could build a smoke-house like the one gran'pa had, an' when we kill a pig we can smoke the bacon and the hams, and make sausage an' all like that. An' when the ...
Alfalfa pellets are supplementing the square bales of hay they are fed just until this growing season produces enough hay for purchase. It was a poor growing season last year, much like this one: rainy far too long. Last year when the sun arrived it scorched the earth. Local hay farmers ...
Below is a letter from Frank and Monica Carper of Camelot Auction: Dear Ladies and Gents, If someone had told me five years ago that horse rescues and tons of regular folks would step up and help find (and be) homes for horses that weren’t getting sold, or were being sold for slaugh...
Here’s a link to an interesting video showing how that process worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLCYP2Bixe0 Immediately inside the barn door to the left were a few stalls where, well before I came along, the workhorses used to spend their indoor time, but where my dad milked...
Mac and I spent about five minutes once the bales were loaded, staring up at the mountain of alfalfa in the covered barn, bantering about horses, customers, and the importance of keeping working and physical and active — in addition to the benefits of eating good chocolate!
-Reward for the littlest of things at the beginning and build on it. -Always let them know when they are doing the right thing. -Give them breaks so they can mentally reset. After they did the right thing is a perfect time. They can process what just happened. ...
Vilsack has urged the Trump team to sign “key ethics documents required by the Presidential Transition Act as soon as possible” so they can start the process of “educating folks… about what they are walking into,” and so the next Secretary of Agriculture “can be fully prepared for ...
There are a number of reasons why this is the case: 1) lack of significant UV exposure due to cloudy conditions and short day length; 2) lack of actively growing plants, the phase during which toxic secondary compounds are commonly generated; 3) increased skin cover by hair or fleece for...