This is Christina raking hay. This is done after the top of the alfalfa row is dried and is really helpful for drying the bottom of the wind row when the wind rows are really big. This is raking two rows into one which also makes baling faster since there are less rows to get around. Notice the hay is very green which is easier for us to achieve than other farms because our location. Where we live its a very dry climate which helps the hay to dry out fast leaving it in the sun for less time so less bleaching takes place.
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We have to vouch for the quality of Macey hay. We have been buying from them for a year now, and it is always beautiful,and green. Usually first cutting from other ranches is very stemmy, but Macey's often is not very stemmy at all. Our 42 goats and sheep are pretty picky and waste a lot of stem, but we find if we get 1st cutting, the stems are green and they eat almost all of it. This is probably because of its high mineral content. We have had mostly second cutting from them, and we find it is like 4th cutting from other ranches. It has been weed free so far. We have not been able to buy (due to recession) all the supplements we normally would buy, but in spite of this, our animals are still shiny and healthy.
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