Don't put out any more hay until they eat it all. Unless soiled or stepped on, they will eat it. Who is wasting the hay here
I moved to alfalfa pellets for many reasons. Our keeping quality of our hay is poor, way too much humidity, no freezes, so our barns are hot and humid through most of our winter. Good hay even from New Mexico, starts depleting in nutrients as soon as it hits here, then I am feeding fresh milkers and new kids hay that has sat in our hot wet humid barns all winter. Whats the nutitional count on hay that is 8 months old, stored in these conditions? Mold, leaf shatter, it's a nitemare. Plus driving to get it, loading it, hauling it, stacking it. Then you feed it and then the pitch forking up the waste, or worse, trying to dig out hay pats ful of manure and urine that sets all winter? NO THANK YOU! If I could pay 2$ a bale like some do up north for any hay, I may feed it
Down here the 7 and 8$ per 50 pounds of alfalfa pellets with zero waste, no storage problems is the solution.
Also for my does who are good milkers and carry high multiples, if I can not look at their nutrition management and see where their calcium is coming from, than we have problems with hypocalcemia. At the show yesterday someone was telling me about her problems with breeding her does young, bowed front legs etc. Looking into her pen I asked her "Where is the calcium in your does diet coming from?" She shook her head knowingly as we started talking about alfalfa pellets. Vicki