You should build a hay feeder so you get less waste. Even just stopping them from being able to stand/pee on it will save a lot of feed, and getting it off the floor and having a rain cover will be even better! With 2 cows you'd only need something small and you could even put wheels on it so you could move it around to stop one area of dirt getting trampled.

This may sound weird, but In have never thought a cow was beautiful until I started watching your channel. You guys take great care of your cows and they really are beautiful creatures!

Austin, as children we would put up hay loose and once my grandfather started to bale we still did the same, the way we corrected for the moisture was we would salt the hay, either loss or baled just put a layer of salt on top of each layer and then it will absorb the moisture.

$4.00 a bale for good hay and getting it delivered is a great price.

My Grandfather's barn burnt down in the late 60's! It as a horrible fire. A huge sacrifice as he was a dairy farm that no longer existed. It was never rebuilt to this day and only the cement block walls were around till new owners removed as they were then broken down.

#askhomesteady Beef farmer here! Hay is great your right on point! Green, leafy and not stemy. I prefer to feed the best hay I can get. I really like the Bermuda hay! Thanks for a great episode!

Great job guys! You make a great team.

You put the clothes in the trees to disguise your scent for hunting

It looks like the flies are gone. I didn't see any tormenting them this time? What a relief for all of you.

You getting your hunting clothing to smell like nature so the deer don’t know your there! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🦌🦌🦌

Lol! You and Kaye had me laughing! My first thought on the clothes hanging up was, you're airing out your musty, smelly hunting clothes from last year. My brothers did it every year.

Stacking bales is good training. lol Brings back memories when we got our 312 straw bales. everyone had to be lifted up 3meter (9 feet) with a hay fork and then stacked in warm loft. And I was the one who got to stack them all. And it itch so bad afterwards. It's good that it's not often you have to do it. You're hay really looks nice and green and can imagine how nice it must smells to

I'd be getting on the stick checking the moisture too! Nothing to mess around with. Also, don't leave any full or half full, clear water bottles in the loft where the sun can hit them. It'll act like a magnifying glass and catch the hay on fire.

Lol beef vs dairy hay.... We live in maine. We pay bucoo bucks for second crop square bales. We chose round bales & they are wrapped not to keep moisture out but to keep moisture in, we get baleage & they are wicked heavy 😉.. Priced perfect for us & our barn full of cows..

In the meantime of not having a hay elevator.........a good hay fork poked in the side of a bale is a good help in raising a bale up 4-5ft above your head without working as hard as throwimg a bale up.

I feel your pain about putting up hay in 90-degree weather. We bale our own hay on our farm and my husband always picks the hottest day of the summer. LOL!

Those cows have the most beautiful eyes. Luna has so cute and adorable. Donkeys have beautiful eyes too. I hope if you ever get one, you get two. They need company.

We pay around $20 a bale of orchard grass 2nd cutting we buy from a hay farm near us alfalfa 3 string is around $20 too we have a 16 year old nigerian doe also we have 2 11 year old nubian wethers so we are very picky too and we have 2 yearling wethers a mini nubian and a mini la Mancha love watching you too

I always think it's funny that you have such a huge animal that follows you like a dog... LOL!

We live north of you near the New York State line and here most dairy farmers make silage out of the first cutting, 1. For the added nutrition and 2. It rains a lot in the spring here. Second and third cutting will usually get baled though.

LOL. It's easier to bring the spruce to your clothes than your clothes to the spruce. I throw a few branches in a plastic tote with all my hunting clothes and an ozone generator. Works great for scent control.

That’s a good price for hay! It’s $5.50 per bale here in NW Ga. I use round bales, though. It’s easier to let them free feed and less work for me!

Holy crap!! I'm down near Savannah GA and our hay provider trucks theirs in from Indiana. We pay $13 a bail which is the going rate for good hay. Ours is a 70/30 mix of orchard/ alfalfa.

beautiful ladybug and luna

Picking up that local smell and naturalizing moisture.

Haha, loved that shot of the cows eating, and then Ladybug just goes all "Hulk smash!" on the camera! Also, awesome music!

My hubby and I have all beef cows but his aunt has all dairy cows and she buys hay from us. We have 2 fields. Haygrazer and Gordon blue stem mix

Nice hay is invaluable. The cows look so happy munching it. Here in Kentucky [SC] good hay, alfalfa-orchard grass is 5.00 a bale. HAY....you guys looked hot in the loft😂

4.00 a bale is a unheard of price here. You would be lucky to get it at 8.00 a bale if you go out in the field and load it yourself. Feed stores get about 12 to 15 a square bale. Our round bales are all over the price range here. With the drought in the summer and now it does not have time to dry out from the rain to make it easy to bale. Then we are getting army worms. Here after a drought and it starts raining the grass turns green and starts growing. Then the army worms come through. They will strip the blades of grass off the stems. Before you know you have them they can strip a hay field. I have heard of it selling as high as 100.00 to 125.00 a round bale. Even round bales can catch on fire and they are stacked outside. I have seen guys go out and move them away from each other if they get to hot. Very good lesson on the hay guys. There are so many people that don't realize many operations that go into having cows.

Going hunting! Woo Hoo! I love getting out Into the woods.

Ok. What difference between 1st n 2nd cutting hay. My country we feed them rice straw in winter. Never cut grass 4 winter feed.

Not "fire is EMINENT"; that would mean something like "the fire is well known, or highly respected". The Great Chicago Fire is eminent in American history. Since your barn is isolated so that the fire would not spread to other buildings causing a general conflagration, it would never become eminent. The word you meant to say is 'imminent', i.e. about to happen.

Today was the first day of bow season here in Ohio so I think I know what you are doing

Kay where did you get your overalls?! Love the videos

$4.....hooley dooley. Here in my part of NSW Australia I am paying an average of $20 a bale! And with the drought being as bad as it is some people are paying $30 a bale. In a good year it costs around $12 from a wholesale supplier...no one sells good hay direct around here. Some people are carting hay from Western Australia to NSW just to feed their animals. Also, why not use Copra Meal for your cows instead of grain. It's good for ruminants, high in protein, non gmo and chemical free; plus the animals love it. I add in some organic kelp meal + vit E + Selenium + nutritional yeast + calcium...mix it in and give it to the goats. CLOTHES in trees to blend in for hunting so animals don't smell you. If you don't use fragranced products it will be better for hunting and your health.

Easy. I do this too. It's a GREAT way to cheaply de-scent your hunting attire. Remember to use unscented soap and shampoo the morning of!

Also try shingle lift / elevator

Hayyy ....that's another great video

The first time I read about hay bales starting on fire due to moisture I thought it was crazy. Like how is that possible. One of my bales got wet and it was so hot on the inside I was shocked.

From where did you buy Hay when living in CT?

Moisture content of the hay should always be taken seriously up to 6 weeks after baling. Several barns burn down every year from spontaneous combustion. Your hay mow is not as crucial since you have quite a bit of space and the hay isn't stacked tightly so it can sweat out.

To have the same sent as the area you will be in . to blend

Second cut is getting hard to find this year in western PA and it dosnt help that most farmers wet wrap or chop their second cut. I would look into getting 5x6 rounds it will be cheaper.

Could you use a Soil meter with a long probe to at least get a temputure of the bales?

natural scent buster

Hunting season... you are letting your clothing pickup smells other than human.

Please be sure to always tear apart the hay bales when you feed them to animals: there could be all kinds of nasty things accidentally bound up it, including dead field mice! 💀🐭🤢 (Not accusing your seller of anything, of course. It's just a tip I learned from Rick Gore of the Think Like A Horse channel: he's found plastic garbage, dead critters, and even bits of metal like barbed wire inside bales and flakes of hay!)

Hanging to mask human and laundry smell so deer won’t be like “Wow I smell something strong in the wind like summer fresh human cologne. Let’s bounce! “ 🦌

Ditto all of the others. Scent camouflage.

That’s what I look for in rabbit hay

#askhomesteady: what is the tag that is attached to your orange hat? Is it a fishing license?

It's called hay fermentation.

Shoot! I'd love to pay $4 a bale. I feed the same to my beef and dairy cows. We have great looking healthy animals.

Do you give your cows any thing beside hay?

Do your cows provide milk if they aren't bred?

I get it. We put our hunting clothes in plastic bags with evergreen boughs. Hey, who knows, it may work

#askhomesteady Would you guys ever make ur own Fodder for ur cows over the winter?

Great video!

#askhomesteady Do you ever plan to plant and grow your own hay?

You two are so funny, I love watching ye.

we pay approx $30 for a 1200-pound round bale

Are you descenting the clothes for hunting?

Putting your clothes on the trees: It is to mask your sent in the woods when you are hunting deer!

Are you trying to hide your scent because you are planning on hunting this weekend? And I love your videos. Don't stop making them. And I also haven't quite gotten over my camera shyness, lol.... #askhomesteady I would love to know what Kay cooks from day to day.

Love the video 👋

#askhomesteady Is it possible to grow your own hay on a homestead?

My mom wore her barn clothes hunting elk. she came across a group o hunter looking up a slide area and the said a herd of elk was spooked and went up the slide. None of them were willing to clime the slide but my mother did. When she got to the top she fell asleep on a moss covered stump then awoke to the herd of elk laying down all around her. Picked out the fattest cow and shot it.

Airing out your huntimg gear.

What's the protein on that hey

What herbicides and chemical fertilizers were used to grow the hay or feed? after all what you feed the cow and then drink the milk is the same as a nursing mother it goes to the infant or in case of cows milk people drink it. I know this because I got an infection after the birth of my second daughter and was nursing her and had to stop until I was no longer on medication and it was out of my system. the doctor explained to me that the medication would concentrate in my milk and it wouldn't be good for my daughter to drink it because they didn't know what health risks it could cause her at the time or long term. she was born in the 80's when chemicals and prescriptions weren't like fast food chains or the express lane at the local market. The doctors I chose were careful not to prescribe stuff that wasn't needed and even helped me choose natural means such as foods herbs and minerals and vitamins. and only use antibiotics and prescription meds when necessary. So it's something all ranchers and farmers need to know about the foods they are feeding their animals. I like farmers that do not mind someone making sure their product is top quality. but I do think the above question should be asked along with some questions you mentioned that I'd never thought to ask. Thanks for sharing.

Serious Dad jokes... lol

You are preparing them for the hunt so they smell like the woods and not the house and soaps and pets and all that! Then you make sure your sent is down as much as possiable and the deer have less chance of smelling you!! Hunting season starts soon?

why is the hay in the attic?

So that they smell like the trees for dear hunting.

Check the local rental company

Is it just the lighting or is it Alfalfa looks a little green I could see you guys have not very much like me in there in the way the sun was coming in I'm not sure if I was just seeing things in for those Playing Tricks on my eyes or if it's actually hey and not alfalfa nvm u answerd my question lol

Meting ready for huntn

I'm sorry hay should be cured before you bale it!!

Is hay source a Mexican gent? Just kidding,great video and no disrespect to our Mexican friends.

Actualy.......cows can eat worse hay then horses. Horses need the best and dust free hay believe it or not. Cows can eat pretty much any grass hay dry or siledged.

Tsk tsk tsk...teasing/ridiculing your wife in public isn't nice! I'm on her side :)

That is not dairy hay ,that is basically grass hay . Dairy hay is all alfalfa 21 to 22 percent protein and in CA we get 6 cutting a season and it's $ 14.70 a bale , and the heifer should not eat high protein hay it will make her more fat

You're going hunting & getting that pine smell on your clothes helps to mask your scent. Total guess here...

To mask your sent....so you can sneak up on the deer...

All right I know I have a lot of questions but what is hanging off your hat or his how I should say so you never cut the tag off it it's a brand new hat is he turning into one of those G gangsters that leaves a sticker and tags on her hat oh how cute LOL just giving you guys shit I like your Channel

Your conditioning your clothes for hunting season because hunting season is opening soon

All I want is for you guys to have a pregnant lady bug!

end of the video you are trying to get the scent off your clothes for hunting.. i stick mine in a bag with pine bows and leaves

Its bow season for deer...your hanging your hunting clothes to make them smell like nature and not human. Good luck in the woods...and send me a back Strap when you get 1 lol

Bad jokes

well it's for hunting but I don't know I've been hunting for a long long time years and years and years and years and all you got to do is just rub them all over that tree and then bring him in the house you don't have to hang in there and let him sit there and chance blown away or chance getting eaten by your goats or what not but that's just my opinion just River Branch off and smear it all over your clothes that's what I do I guess all you can even buy a pine scented or some kind of tree scented car freshener and rub it on you or even that stuff that you spray on fake tree to make your fake Christmas tree smell like a pine tree there's lots of things you can do are you can buy cover scent and spray cover scent on you tamaskan human scent my personal opinion is I like to go into the woods for a week or so and then and it smell like Bigfoot's dick at the end LOL

Your making your clothes smell like the woods so less of your human smell will be detected by the animals your hunting.

How would the hay burn down the barn is this a new government hey with arms and legs and a lighter I've never seen that before I'll have to look into it the government does lots of weird things lol jk

I live in Tennessee and when I was growing up we had cows and my father didn't like the second cut hay.it had a lot of weeds in it and it was more likely to be baled a little too wet due to the weather being rainy and humid .The hay we had was just mixed pasture hay with a lot of fescue not the high qualiy stuff.

Do your cows provide milk if they aren't bred?