[Trillium Farm]

not sure where to post this...
i am in oregon and it does rain alot.
i have a 30x30 pole barn. three sides fully enclosed. front side is 1/3 for the horse run in,1/3 for the hay area and 1/3 for the tractor. the tractor area has a garage door and the horse area is open. the roof has a vapor barrier. and had gutters.

I store the hay in the middle on pallets, plywood walls. I have such a bad mold problem its terrible. i bought the hay late summer. $23 a bale so not cheap hay at all. what am i doing wrong? my horse coliced from the hay. i pull off the mold on the sides so i am wasting a lot of hay. the floor is gravel.

they hay starts with smelling like mold then the sides get a dusty mold then it turns to green mold. I might as well just leave the hay outside under a tarp, thats preety much what would happen.
i do not have power n the barn, but someone suggested a fan since i dont have any air flow other then the front of the barn. the back is the weather side so we didnt want to put any windows or doors on that side.

also how can i clean the floor of mold spores? i am cleaning out what is left tomorrow and getting more hay sunday. I was so hoping to be able to store hay all winter since this spring is going to be hard to find hay here.

Sounds like you bough round bales ($23) go onto small squares, a lot easier to control mold in small sq than big round, in my experience. With only 1 horse the $$ difference isn't going to kill you.

 

[Trillium Farm]

a few are throughout but it starts on the outside most of the time. i didnt have this much of a problem at my other place and it was only a few miles down the road. thank you for replying.

If throughout it's because the hay was too humid when baled. This is made worse by the bale size, the bigger the more to go moldy, surface mold generally doesn't create a problem for goats as once exposed to sun or air it lessens, but I still would not give it to horses.