We discuss Emergency treatment for heating HAY bales that may become spoiled due to MOLD and spoilage. This is a how to guide for both the beginner or veteran farmer when attempting to salvage HAY bales when they have been baled up with too high of moisture content and are heating up and causing spoilage. This scenario typically causes the Bale to HEAT from the core causing bacteria to grow. This process causes MOLD to be produced which can ultimately deem the BALE non useable as a Livestock Feed source. The bale will typically heat up depending on how DAMP/WET it was when processed and baled up. This can not only cause MOLD to spawn but can also cause a BALE to COMBUST. This can happen once the bales core temperature hits around the 170 Farenheit mark and beyond. Now how high of a temp. the bale hits is directly related to the moisture content of that bale. Heating takes place and rises inside the bale, as it is attempting to dry out that bale from the inside out. Usually at this point you have already lost the bale due to severe MOLD and carmelization caused by the heat and bacteria. I discuss how the strategic use of LOOSE SALT can be utilized to attempt to preserve or salvage portions of that HAY bale. When SALT is properly placed inside of the bale before or at the beginning of heating process one can SOMETIMES prevents or greatly decreases the amount of MOLD being produced and spread inside the bale. Now this isn't a normal process or treatment for HAY however it can be used on occasion in an EMERGENCY to greatly decrease the amount of wasted HAY or feed if you did not have access to BALE wrappers or Silage equipment. You can also bale hay somewhat more damp successfully if you have a HAY preservative on your baler whether it be liquid form or granulated powder such as SILO GUARD. In this video we also GO OUT and make some WILD HAY bales, so lets get going we have a lot of information and ground to COVER!
1 окт 2021
