Hay Box Shortages

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This morning the very nice DPD delivery man brought 15kg of hay for the piggies. As he was carting 3 boxes of hayBox hay into the porch he mentioned that someone else he had just delivered to too told him about an imminent shortage of hay from HayBox so she had ordered extra.

Anyone else heard this?

There's no hint of a problem on their website.
 
Not heard anything but I seem to have a slight surplus anyway so I won't panic just yet! I added some of the soft cut timothy to my order last time but the piggies seem rather unimpressed with it so I may give the soft cut to PomPom bunny...
 
It’s probably driven by the fact that we’ve had such weird weather and the grass hasn’t grown as well as it normally does. I went to see my folks at the weekend and there was plenty of hay making going on in the fields around them. Don’t let people scare you into overbuying.
 
That is worrying.

I've not heard anything? I ordered some yesterday and I've had the message to say it's arriving tomorrow 🤞

And I agree with @KathT - with the horses we are usually first to hear from the farmers if there's going to be a shortage or any price increases due to rubbish cuts (normally because of weather), but all good here!
 
I’m not planning on stockpiling - we haven’t got anywhere to put more boxes!
( well, maybe in the downstairs loo!)

I will need to rearrange my order to tie in with holidays but that just means a one off box before we go away.

Sounds as if it might have been a false rumour.
 
I wonder if it's arisen because of recent stock shortages from branded suppliers such as Oxbow? I couldn't get any Oxbow orchard hay last month, or Hay Experts Timothy, which are my usual. I eventually got some of the Timothy 10 days ago, which looks like it could be new season (it's quite green), so maybe they had run out of last year's and had to wait for the new. People may have been concerned about this years crop I guess, the dryish winter meant my grass wasn't as long in April as it was last year, the wet May has helped it grow lots but will have meant that grass for hay fields couldn't be cut and dried then. But hay making is underway round here now.
 
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