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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | ThreeCorners - 2017-03-11 5:38 AM Drove by the Standlee mill again yesterday and the hay stacked outside this time looked good and a new load was there being downstacked and it looked good. So perhaps the moldy stuff was set adide a reject. Who knows but yesterdays hay looked pretty nice.
Glad to hear your seeing better hay  , my understanding is they {Standlee} has their own fields and do their own cutting and baling, {no outside hay} My thoughts why would they have the crappy moldy slimy hay when they do all the inspecting of their own hay, I was told that would not get passed their inspection, all hay comes fresh out of the fields.. Was told if I ever get a bad bag, the pellets were not fresh and smelled like mold to please call them.
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| I run a pellet mill. I make millet into pellets for cattle, pigs and goats. When pellets turn black, it's because the dye they use is getting worn out. Instead of pushing the product through the holes to make pellets, the rolls on the inside of the dye get loose and it starts to burn the product because of the friction. The burning product eventually does get pushed through so you have black, burnt pellets. There isn't anything weird or necessarily bad about it. It's just gotten cooked too much by the heat that was caused.
Or they shut the dye down and it was hot. The product in the holes cooks as the dye cools down. When you start it back up, you have burnt pellets.
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| Sandok - 2017-03-09 11:22 AM TDove-I would also like you take on the Omnis cubes being a different color. I picked up a bash Saturday and my dealer said that there was a mal-function in the bagging part and that the strip on the bag was not sewn on therefore would probably have to use scissors to cut the bag. Not a big deal but you do have to watch for and of the bag strings coming off and into the cubes. With this bag that I just opened and had to cut I noticed that the cubes were brown. Horses were not please with them either. Noticed the color thing also with a pallet we bought, and the cubes were tougher than any I've bought before. The bag thing doens't bother me, but the horses aren't liking this pallet of feed, it's very dusty, cubes are brown and horses aren't eating them. Having to feed it to our calves which is TOO expensive to feed our calves and we travel an hour and a half to get them.
I asked and was told the new place was getting the binder mixture right or something, but we will be needing some feed soon however I don't want to buy anymore until we know we won't get a bad batch again. LOVE LOVE this feed, been feeding it for over a year, this is the first problem we have had. Wasn't offered any solutions yet. Hope to find out soon because we love this feed!!!
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Southtxponygirl - 2017-03-11 9:43 AM ThreeCorners - 2017-03-11 5:38 AM Drove by the Standlee mill again yesterday and the hay stacked outside this time looked good and a new load was there being downstacked and it looked good. So perhaps the moldy stuff was set adide a reject. Who knows but yesterdays hay looked pretty nice. Glad to hear your seeing better hay , my understanding is they {Standlee} has their own fields and do their own cutting and baling, {no outside hay} My thoughts why would they have the crappy moldy slimy hay when they do all the inspecting of their own hay, I was told that would not get passed their inspection, all hay comes fresh out of the fields.. Was told if I ever get a bad bag, the pellets were not fresh and smelled like mold to please call them.
I was told the same when I fed Standlee.
Still buy the small bags of cubes for my sibling's show rabbits but have switched to a different Alfalfa cube for my Horses. The Rabbits love the timothy hay as well so I buy a lot of that.
I got one bag of alfalfa cubes home that was moldy. Called the company and asked about it and they sent me a coupon for TWO FREE BAGS. They also updated me later and said the TSC where I was buying my bags was not properly rotating stock. The new bags kept getting stacked in front of the old bags. I just happened to grab an old bag once all the new stock was gone.
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