{"id":2382,"date":"2012-07-11T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T21:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2012-07-11T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T21:35:49","slug":"weve-been-haying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/07\/11\/weve-been-haying\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve been haying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a stretch of hot, dry weather, we&#8217;ve started our haying in earnest. Yesterday we put up more than 100 bales in the loft of our storage building and this morning, Will and our friend, Eric, put up another 100 bales. Will cuts, and I rake and help on the wagon or bale hay as Will stacks the load while the bales come right from the baler onto the wagon. We still have a few rounds of raked hay on the field and while I work on the computer today, Will and Eric are going over to bale that up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Haying.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2383\" title=\"Haying\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Haying.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haying depends so much on the weather; we check our weather radio several times a day to make sure no rain is sneaking in to ruin our hay after it&#8217;s been cut. We want perfect hay with no mold, dust or hay that is over-mature. As we only put up about 1,000 bales in a year, we can afford to be picky for our animals&#8217; sake.<\/p>\n<p>Haying is sort of like canning; it&#8217;s exciting to see each and every bale come out of the baler and then go up the elevator, into the barn. We know that our stock will be well-fed this winter because of our work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a stretch of hot, dry weather, we&#8217;ve started our haying in earnest. Yesterday we put up more than 100 bales in the loft of our storage building and this morning, Will and our friend, Eric, put up another 100 bales. Will cuts, and I rake and help on the wagon or bale hay as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}