“Alfalfa mildews/molds easily so it needs to be dry before baling.”
This past week they took the first cutting of Alfalfa on our farm. They wrapped it all for just that reason.
Molly Brown! I remember the movie (staring Debbie Reynolds) and the beginning was her as a baby, in a basket, riding the rapids in a big river! Not sure if that was true or not.
She was a passenger on the ‘Titanic’ and survived the sinking, though. Amazing life!
Gorgeous day with sunshine & temps climbing into the 70’s- yay! Grass is sopping wet with dew so I decided to make dinner this morning & then I can work late & dinner will be cooked, just need warming.
Just as I was getting ready to saute onions, there was a big BANG! and the power was instantly off. Mom was at the mailbox so when she came in, I asked if she heard a big ‘bang’. She had, but thought it was a car going by backfiring (didn’t have hearing aids in).
I reported the outage via my phone & was not happy to see no one else was reporting it. Ruh roh! I waited probably 40 minutes, still just us & was going to contact electric co-op again when the phone rang - one of their engineers. She explained she had waited 30 minutes for our meter to show nothing, but it had not cleared, could I check it? Sure - it was blank, no current getting to it, so she sent a crew. It turns out the older guy on the crew had been here many times for squirrels tripping the transformer to the house. This time it was a bird - power back on in 15 minutes. Measures had been taken by the previous owner & power company to keep squirrels off the pole which is why we haven’t had a problem until some bird got us. Glad we didn’t have company coming for lunch (we do on the 12th).
I bought alfalfa hay for my horses, but they only got a flake or so every couple of days but the majority of their hay was regular (mainly orchard grass) hay because:
“Alfalfa Hay (also known as Legume Hay) averages 21.2% protein and 11% NSC (simple starches). Grass Hay averages 10.8% protein and 12.9% NSC. Alfalfa Hay is also higher in Calcium, with about 3 times as much as Grass Hay. This can become important when considering the ideal Calcium:Phosphorus ratio for horses, which should be about 2:1. The Calcium in Alfalfa is higher, but the Phosphorus is about the same as grass hay, which could lead to an imbalance in the diet of a given horse.”
I got a rabbit after seeing the Molly Brown play & named her “Molly” - she was a great pet.