Ok I hate when I lose photos on posts, but to lose the whole post, photos and write up, and just to come up blank.. very odd, it didn’t even save a draft for me.. Very very odd.

On Sunday we took off the half bale on top of the pile and peeled off the outer spoiled area and we had a really good core of clean bedding quality bale, which was awesome, and the pigs loved it..

Which raised my hopes for the other bales, they are in fact bigger and so I though, great, might have to take off more outer layers but should have a bigger safe core.. so we flipped over the end two bales and lets just say, you should not be handling these kind of bales without masks and gloves etc..

I was sad to see that despite taking off several hundred pds worth of outer layers (which were hauled over and added to the top of the closest hugelbed, that there was nothing that could be used other then for compost/garden use in that bale at least..