Closed up for the winter with plenty of hay in store!

The farm is closed for the winter though we still have plenty of hay for everyone, the barn is still packed!  Timothy is great for all your pets small and large.  Our rabbits eat the timothy all day long, that is their main diet.  We do feed some pellets and others fresh veggies as well. Oat hay is one of the treats we give them and they like that lots.  Remember your rabbit, chinchilla, or guinea pig likes to have variety in their diet, hay can be feed always and it keeps you bunny busy.

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Old Combine

This is an old combine (it was used to strip oats from the stems) that my dad aquired as his first piece of junk on the farm when he bought it in 1979.  He of course had no junk of his own yet so the man he was buying the land from let him keep it.  It was hauled to the arch way where you enter our place and is still there today.  Its a favorite place for rabbits to hide.

Rabbits country and city dwellers.

This looks amazing right??  Green hay, blue skies, big hills, and fresh air.  This is what the city people miss out on, but then the country lacks lots of things the city certainly does not.  One thing that is true of both places is you can have a pet rabbit, chinchilla, guinea pig, or other small herbivores in either.  They are all small pets and can be kept in cages or let to run around the house. Rabbits are now trained to use a litter box like a cat which is great for rabbits because they have so much freedom to run around this way.

With all these small active pets around they need a place to get hay from and we grow it right here in California on our small family farm.  Just go to Sierravalleyhay.com and order your pet a box today.  We have all kinds including timothy which is super tasty!

We would love to invite you to the site to check us out and give us your input, post a comment in the guest book or learn more about feeding hay to your small pets.

Thanks!

Raking Hay

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.

This is what the oats look like when they are in the wind rows.  Its has just been cut so it is nice and fluffy but as it dries out the size will shrink by half.  The moisture will evaporate and the tasty seeds your rabbits, chinchillas, guinea pigs etc. love will still be there waiting to be baled.  The baler comes around and packs the hay into 100lbs bales that go to the barn to wait for someone to need it.  Horses, cows, llamas, donkeys, rabbits, chinchillas, guinea pigs along with lots of other animals love oat hay.  It is not the main diet it is more like a treat and a feel good snack for your pets.

This is what the ranch looks like at the onset of winter. Everything is dead or in hibernation.  An old tractor and the dogs are there in the distance, as well as the pump house which houses one or our wells that feeds our land with water.

The views out here are amazing, the clear blue skies and you would not even believe the amount of stars you can see at night. In winter the specs on white on the mountains surrounding the valley really remind you its winter but also just make you stop and take a breath and enjoy the cold fresh air.

Right now the alfalfa is in hibernation underground.  The freezing temps to freeze the ground but not deep enough to kill the seeds that will sprout in the early summer.

Well thanks for stopping by the blog and we hope to see you soon!

So its Sunday night and we just finished a batch of brownies from scratch and thought how we were thinking of trying to come up with a brownie for rabbits. It would be alfalfa instead of chocolate as the main flavor and it would be packed with nutrition and great flavor, what more could a rabbit want??

The picture above is of our barn last year between cuttings, but in present time it is packed to the brim with green hay that we want to keep that way hence the barn. 

So maybe this winter we will work on our own version of brownies that are meant for your small pet, how delicious would that be?  Let us know if you like the idea!!
Have a great week.

One of our two new rabbits.....name??

This is one of the rabbits we adopted at the ARBA convention, we are still thinking of names so if anyone has any good ideas let us know, post a comment.  This is a Lionhead rabbit if you were wondering, and he is a male or buck.

Well it is winter up where we live the rain has come and nights are getting down to around freezing.  Lucky for all our customers we have a huge barn that houses all the hay we did not sell during the summer.  We have timothy, alfalfa, oats, a wild grass/alfalfa mix, and a timothy/alfalfa mix.  We sell online to small pet owners and also to daries, ranchers and horse or large animal owners in the area.

If anyone is looking for hay just follow the link to the website and contact us!

Have a great Friday night everyone!

We would like to meet you!

We are Sierra Valley Pet Hay and would like to introduce you to the world of Hay! There are so many kinds, and so many animals that eat and love hay. We are here to answer questions you may have about your pets and thier hay needs as well as any questions about hay. We are a family owned farm in Sierra Valley and are excited to meet you!