The second cutting of hay is now completed and stacked in the field. We will take 50 bales for our winter use and hope that the lab tests come back okay for nitrates.
We took 420 bales on our first cutting and have now taken almost 200 on the second cutting we should get another 200 bales on the third cutting.
Each bale weighs about 100lbs so the 50 bales means we will have 5,000 lbs or 2 and a half tons.
If you work on the rule of thumb that 50 alpacas will eat 100lbs of hay each day then that would give us 50 days supply. This winter we will have closer to 25 alpacas on the farm so with the good good stock from last year we should have enough for about 4 months.
Tonks the Chesapeake Bay Retriever is enjoying life on the farm.





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