Re: RC: Re: Mold on grass hay

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

Thanks for all the feedback on this issue!    Here's what I got back after 
forwarding all your emails:


>I don't know how long I'll be able to stay online tonight since there's 
>lightening all around us - so,
>please accept this 'group thank you' for your opinion about the 
>questionable hay.  (Lif:  A special thanks
>to you for going to all the trouble of asking your other friends!)
>My gut feeling was not to feed it, and you all reinforced it.  (I returned 
>a bale to the guy I got it from and picked up a few more bales - that 
>looked perfectly fine on the outside - you don't know it's moldy until you 
>break open the bales - and some of them are just fine.  He told me, 
>"sometimes they're dusty from the pollen" - I broke open a random flake 
>that happened to have a clump of mold in the center and told him, "this is 
>not pollen - this is what mold looks like.")
>I was prepared to buy 3 tons of grass hay from this guy, but I'm going 
>elsewhere.  I hope he's not allergic to 'pollen'!



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