Only a hundred bales, but hopefully it will arrive tomorrow. The cost is astronomical compared with what we have been paying for ten years, and if this is the new solid price level, the sheep will have to go. I can't afford to feed them at this rate
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I expected to have to pay around $4. The guy who bought out our old supplier has quoted us $2.75 but doesn't have any available. He said he would have it at the end of the month, but at this point I can't count on him.
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The round bales would have to go into the loft, but the hoist hasn't worked in decades and there's only a single spindly ladder up there. The square bales can be stored in one of the rooms in the barn on the ground floor.
If we can't get bales, then it'll be bagged alfalfa for the entire winter, at about $15 a bag. Yikes.
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