Last year, the hay at the stable where a friend and I winter board, was well below 10%, in fact, as I
recall,  it was just over 6%. This year, for some reason 
the same hay is now: starch 6.4, ESC 9.8 
and WSC 12.8. 
Is there any chance that if we wait a month and retest that
the numbers, will go down?  Did we test too soon?  We are in a moderate panic mode, as rinsing and soaking will
not becan option this winter.  

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Kathy 2017 and Donna

 

Harrowsmith, Ontario

https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Kathy%20and%20Donna

Kathy,

Can you post a copy of the hay test results in your case history folder?

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Lavinia and George Too
Nappi, George and Dante Over the Bridge
Jan 05, RI
ECIR Support Team

Hi, Kathy - that is an extremely high starch level for any grass or alfalfa hay, although some cereal hays like millet or wheat hay can be at that level (but those are the high ends of the ranges, even so).  http://equi-analytical.com/interactive-common-feed-profile/  

How was the hay sampled?  If there were a whole bunch of seed heads in the sample, that would account for it. Was a corer used, and how many bales?
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Jaini 
Merlin and Maggie (over the bridge), Gypsy, Ranger
ECIR mod/support, Smithers, BC 09

https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Jaini%20and%20Merlin-Maggie-Gypsy .
https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=34193  
https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=39711

Hi Lavinia and Jaini,

It was me that took the sample and submitted it to Nutrilytical.  I agree that this is rather unusual as the rest of the results are within the same range as past years. There are 1500 hay bales in this barn, I sampled probably 60 from the back of the barn to the front, a handful from each bale.  We don't have a hay corer in the area anymore.  Someone modified the one that was available by welding a handle to the corer which meant that you had to use brute force and weight to get into a bale.  Not to mention that it is not sharp enough anymore to do the job.  I have been using a clean tire iron to dig into each bale as far as I can go without wrecking the bale and extracting a handful of hay from each bale  at a time to get a pound total.  This is probably the 7th year I have done it this way so the method is consistent with past sample techniques. There were no visible seed heads in the sample most of the hay was just grass but that could be the problem.  The hay fields are  just mixed grasses, no alfalfa yet in any of the fields, no cereal hays or wheat.  I will ask the barn owner if she re-seeded any of the fields that this hay came from and if so what did she re-seed with and let you know.  Thanks for the help.



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Sue, Busy(over the bridge but still in my heart) and Tonnerre
Kingston, On
October 2010
https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Sue%20and%20Business%20Image  .

Hi, Lavinia,

Hay analysis is now loaded.


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Kathy 2017 and Donna

Harrowsmith, Ontario

https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Kathy%20and%20Donna