This is freaking beautiful. The internet could have been like this.
I’m going to show my Mom, she is always wanting to find good hay.
Perhaps a bit more info though like pics would be good haha. Some indication of the quality.
I’m going to show my Mom, she is always wanting to find good hay.
Perhaps a bit more info though like pics would be good haha. Some indication of the quality.
Maybe some value-added services like transportation, credit, and insurance too? Oh and a seller and buyer reputation system so you know you're not getting stiffed. A convenient IoT button to reorder hay without opening the computer. Ads, to pay for the servers. An app to know where your hay's at?
Nah you and I know all that bullshit ends up getting gamed with meager user benefit. Surely at some point even this gets up on freaking Amazon or Etsy or "eHay" but until then here's the sound of a creaky dude pouring one out for the old Craigslist-style BBS out there. Make it last and fuck the VCs.
I need hay and you have the right kind in my region.
Okay let’s have a _conversation_ and figure it out.
Is it not? I used chipdrop twice this year with reasonably good results, and that's pretty similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilAv8SzB_Aw
(If you haven't seen it, they have probably the best startup video since dollar shave.)
The fact that this site exists means the internet is like this. It's this, and more.
It's not the internet's fault that people choose the same 5 websites to visit every day.
A person visiting the same five websites every day is not itself a problem. Each person could choose a different set of five websites.
However when so many people choose the same five websites every day, for whatever reason, then what we have seen is that those five websites begin to actively manipulate traffic, through whatever means necessary (including acquisition of other websites) to maintain their "popularity". Generally, the only way they can make money is advertising since they offer nothing of value. They are merely intermediaries with the intent to serve ads. "Portals" with heavy surveillance and data collection.
Amazon, after it has killing anyone's dreams of an internet with competitive e-commerce, has transitioned to web hosting. More manipualtion of traffic and data collection. Advertising is next, no doubt.
The internet _was_ like this. It took twenty years for us to fuck it up, it will probably take another twenty to fix it.
Sometimes people would ask for photos, and I'd supply them. Discogs has a ratings guide, so I could describe the quality accurately.
The people who bought them were overwhelmingly nice (with just a couple exceptions).
It would be cool though.
3 horses will eat ~350kg medium round bale in a week. 3 cows will eat slightly faster than that. 12 goats/sheep will eat a bale a week. They will eat more in cold weather (over 30% more in winter from my experience) or when producing milk.
1 medium round bale is about 15 square bales. 1 big round bale is about 2x medium bale. I'm not sure about big square bales, but id guess about the same as a big round.
You would expect around 15% wastage in a decent feeder. Youre also going to discard some hay due to it not being of consistent quality, etc. Its also quite common to discard the first "layer" of many round bales if they have been weathered/stored incorrectly - especially when using as horse feed.
That said - my understanding is that these sellers have that total quantity to sell. You will likely be able to buy small quantities. Some people go and pick up their hay weekly from producers as they dont have suitable storage.
EDIT: Weights vary - the weights given above are about average from my experience, but vary depending on moisture content, types of grass, how tightly the bale has been compacted, etc.
It still can and like others have said it does exist in some places. I mean this site is an example, right? :)