It’s that’s time of year again here at Ekone Ranch: when we wake with the first morning birds and troop up to the barn to start the day with a big ol’ stack of hay bales. Putting in the hay that feeds the horses all year has always been a favorite activity around here. Like a barn-raising or a quilting bee, there’s something about getting all your friends together that makes the work really a lot more like fun.

Putting in hay is also an excellent opportunity to develop our grasp of physics… like, it’s a lot harder to life a bale if someone’s sitting on it… and, a person and a haybale can’t occupy the same point in the time-space continuum! 

Every time the hay truck pulls up and we look waaaaaay up at the top of the stack, it seems impossible that we’ll really be able to get all that hay from the truck to the stack with just our bare hands and willpower, but then all of a sudden it’s done in no time and all!

This hay crew sure makes it seem like a breeze to get 5 ½ tons of hay stacked up nice and tidy in only a little over half an hour. (That’s 11,000 pounds of hay!)