Hay is made just once a year usually June or July and then stored for the rest of the year, one of the key factors to quality and incredibly important is the weather, when its growing and when it is made, these two major factors dictate the quality every year whether its good and plentiful or not so good and in short supply.
Soft Hay
Our Soft Hay comes from long-established meadows that have not been ploughed and re seeded for many years, this type of hay has that wonderful fragrance we associate with fresh cut hay and is likely to include older type grasses like Cocksfoot Fescues Crested Dogstail to name a few. It has finer stems and slower growing.
Stalky Rye Hay
From fields that are re-seeded every few years, they grow more vigorousley mainly from the Rye family of grasses. This hay will have thicker stems and more of a paler colour, smell will be different too but has a higher feed value and especially good for wearing teeth down.
Standard Hay
For those who would like a middle-of-the-road hay that’s not too soft or too stalky, then this one is a safe bet. Nice green hay with good fragrance, a good all-rounder.
Soft Hay
Our Soft Hay comes from long-established meadows that have not been ploughed and re seeded for many years, this type of hay has that wonderful fragrance we associate with fresh cut hay and is likely to include older type grasses like Cocksfoot Fescues Crested Dogstail to name a few. It has finer stems and slower growing.
English grown Timothy
Grown here in the UK and has a thick stems and large seed heads and is excellent feed.
American grownn Timothy
Grown in Washington State USA is the same as the English version but they seem to have a better growing climate, cold winters and hot summers, so this has a much greener colour and is favoured all over the world for it’s consistent quality.
Meadow Mix
This is something you will not see naturally occuring as we mix this with meadow hay grown here and Timothy, just an experiment to start with, received well so we will continue, it seems a bit more interesting for your animals as they forage.
Barley Straw
This is the stem from the cereal crop in this case barley and we usually use spring sown as the straw is softer. The cereal has to be sown every year and when its ready to harvest a large combine harvester separates the grain from the stem or straw, the grain is used for brewing and animal feed while the straw is a good source of roughage but can also be used for bedding. We send this in our standard PLASTIC Sacks