Hay

[Tnoz]

Good evening all, hope everyone is ok, am I the only one whom kneels down and cuts the hay so that it doesn’t get caught around their necks? I buy big bales and the strands are quite long, so scissors out and chop chop chop lol

 

[Piggies&buns]

My piggies say long strands are perfect for nest making! If I cut them short, I’d have a riot on my hands!

 

[Tnoz]

My piggies say long strands are perfect for nest making! If I cut them short, I’d have a riot on my hands!

I have different types like the soft bedding hay, Timothy hay, the baled hay and burgess with dandelion, mix it all together

 

[Betsy]

I buy big farm bales of hay and there is nothing more than my piggies like than hay diving. It's never even occurred to me to cut it. I've bought it now for 6 years and previously for 5 years when I had my original boys. Nothing untoward has happened.

 

[Tnoz]

I buy big farm bales of hay and there is nothing more than my piggies like than hay diving. It's never even occurred to me to cut it. I've bought it now for 6 years and previously for 5 years when I had my original boys. Nothing untoward has happened.

I’m just too protective I think, it doesn’t stay buffed up for long thought cuz they flatten it lol the soft bedding underneath the other hay helps when the go head first and burrow

 

[Siikibam]

I take out any bits I feel are too stalky. But I don’t go as far as cutting it. They have mainly meadow and sometimes ings.

 

[Lorcan]

Thankfully the skinnies don't seem to want to play in the hay, Camowen will occasionally throw himself in the middle of the pile. Comet would always throw himself in the middle of a pile but I never cut their hay down, and maybe I got lucky he never had haypoke or any other injury considering the madcap stunts he'd pull to get at his hay. Never even occurred to me to cut it honestly, I just chuck it in and let them do the rest.

 

[eileen]

I just pile it in usually starts popcorning or rumbling rumble from the boars

 

[AidaB]

I have never even considered chopping the boys hay. We do pick out the really stalky looking bits.

 

[Tnoz]

ok peeps I’m no longer going to cut the hay, I was just concerned but if no one else has ever had issues with getting tied up in it then I’ll pile it all in ,