Making Hay While The Sun Shines

Things were getting desperate, the grass was SO long in our paddocks, even the goats lost sight of each other and had to bleat loudly to locate where they were.

Although, both the goats and the chickens LOVED the long grass, it was getting to the stage of falling over and rotting from the ground up and I was at my wits end trying to think of a way to save the grass from spoiling.

Just when I had all but given up, I press ganged our next door neighbour into cutting the grass with his tractor, once inside the paddocks, all gated were securely pad-locked, only to be unchained when he had finished!!

It is funny how things work out, I am thinking there may be something in the idea of ‘Laws of Attraction’ since, I has stressed for weeks about the paddocks and the state that they were in, and as soon as I had arranged for them to be cut, the another neighbour was offering hay baling services.

Well, they came and cut the grass, aired the grass and baled the hay, but, only in the nick of time did we manage, with the help of very kind neighbours, to get our whopping 70, yes, that’s SEVENTY bales of hay under cover before the heavens opened.

We are thrilled, our first hay from our paddocks, after being told for years that we had the ‘wrong type of grass’

Now we know it was a sneaky ploy by a neighbour to throw us off the sent of hay making so he could graze his rams in our paddocks!!

Not a bad days work for city girls…eh??

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