hay bale vs grass bale.

[BlueShadow125]

now you dont have to tedder grass, so which is better, hay or grass.

[Slim269]

Depends what you need it for, grass for sheepand making silage bales or hay for the cows

[BlueShadow125]

Originally posted by ENGslim269:

Depends what you need it for, grass for sheepand making silage bales or hay for the cows

so do cows only accept hay? because now i see no reason for tedder

[Slim269]

Cows need grass and hay/silage and power food haven't got to power food yet tho

[BlueShadow125]

Originally posted by ENGslim269:

Cows need grass and hay/silage and power food haven't got to power food yet tho

ahh ok, t hnx :)

[Outtie]

Originally posted by ENGslim269:

Cows need grass and hay/silage and power food haven't got to power food yet tho

Power food is a mix of 1 part straw, 1 part hay or silage, and 2 parts hay or silage (whichever you didnt use already) Mixed together in a mixing wagon. Both mixing wagons carry 16000L so for a full mixer you need 4000L straw, 4000L hay or silage, and 8000L hay or silage (whichever you havent already put in the mix)

[ancienthighway]

Why bother with bales at all? Every use of grass, hay, or straw accepts unbaled. Tedder if needed, making bales, picking them up, wrapping if appropriate or pick it up with a forager wagon.

[Dicky]

1. Storage
2. It's quite fun and is something a bit different to do
3. It's more realistic as it's what farmers do IRL

[ancienthighway]

Storage: For 90,000 plus the cost of mower and loading wagon, you can buy the hayloft and store 150,000 liters of straw and hay. Or you can bale at a cost of 165,000 plus mower and windrow for unlimited storage. But do you really need all that?
Fun: It is a nice change when you have the time, but it is all manual and there's a lot of other things that need to be done.
Realistic: Bales are stored in haylofts to keep them out of the weather, but the game layloft doesn't store bales. So you have a choice between which realism you want to play.

[Nechtician]

I'm trying to get prepared for cows and this is the problem I ran into. I Teddered a bunch of grass into hay and dropped it in the silage bin and it fermented into silage as expected. Once I had some silage I thought I was ready to make TMR. Dropped in a straw bale, a hay bale and a couple scoops of silage in the mixing wagon and everything looked good and green on the meters. Dumped the TMR from the wagon to the feeding bins and all my bars on the animal tab went green except the one for grass. Now I have full bins lacking grass apparently and I'm not sure how to fix it.

[dogwalker1]

I believe they want grass as well as the other stuff (except in winter, if you are using the Seasons mod).

Fyi you can drop grass into the silage bin and ferment it directly into silage - no need to tedder it into hay first.