how much hay to buy?

There really isn't such a thing as wheat hay. When wheat is baled, it is the STEMS left after the wheat has been harvested. It is straw, not hay.

I would find grass hay and forget wheat.

No, here you can get wheat hay....... Folks up the road from us will cut a wheat feild simply for hay (they bale it all for their cattle). There is few seed heads, and it's really leafy.... So here, wheat hay can be whats leftover after the wheat harvest or a good leafy hay......

Unfortunately, if it's wheat, it's called wheat hay..... So you'll find the leafy nice stuff, some with a bunch of seed heads, more stalks but still some leaf, and the junk that isn't good for anything but bedding, all under the same name.

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I hope that works out for you. We were using the same guy for two years, told him last year we would buy ALL of his second cutting, plus his first.

When I called him, he had already sold his first cutting to someone else, then plowed his hay field under and planted corn

LSChic is correct; the wheat hay we have in TX is unharvested wheat, cut a little green with the heads still on. I don't know anyone around here that harvests wheat as a grain. They either buy calves, and put them in field in early winter, to graze, or make wheat hay.

and i was mad about paying 30 bucks for a round bale! mybe i should bring some there and sell them.

When I was growing up in West Texas, our wheat was always harvested, then baled as straw.

The problem is that most "newbies" don't know the difference between straw, hay, wheat hay, etc.

My point was that if the wheat is harvested first, then baled, it is straw and not wheat hay. I've seen too many people over the years get duped because they didn't know the difference.

I have the same situation here with oat hay. Sometimes from the same person. Because of my back problems my husband and kids do all of the haying we were using Large oat squares same guy first load of 3 bales goats loved I checked it out thin stems with lots and lots of seed heads. Second load of 3 bales most of it got wasted I went out to get a better look at it and it was big thick stems. Finally our regular hay guy that we had used for 2 years before mid-summer last year when he had to hold for his cattle, had some to sale. Oat round bales for the girls and nice native grass for the boys. Bought 4 round bales this month and planning on the same for Aug. and Sept. so we don't end up paying 150$ per round for brome this year. This past year would have been our first year with a profit until the drought and this year with so many darn bucks. So hoping for 2013 to show a profit.