What is a biscuit or flake of hay?

Question

is it where you have your bale and if you peel some from the top it comes to a perfect sqaure of hay?

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Answer 1

yes, when you open the bale, the hay will separate into "flakes" very easily and are about 2 to 4 inches thick. Bales can have either thick or thin flakes, and can vary between 8 to 14 flakes a bale (this depends on the density of the pasture it was taken from).

Answer 2

yes.  a square bale will fall into little wedges by itself and each is known as a flake (or biscuit).

Answer 3

yes when u cut open the hay each square is called a flake

Answer 4

Yer, its the slice of hay that comes of the end really easily.  This is one flake.

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Answer 5

The amount in a square (or flake. or bisquit) varies.  The squares are a result of the baler feeding the hay.  the plunger (the part that shoves the hay in TIGHT) pushes the hay into the chute, then comes back out for another clump of hay.  The amount it shoves in at one plunge is a square.  In thick hay this could be several inches thick.  In hay fields that are not producing much hay then this could be only an inch or two.  I typically use the typical 4 to 6 inch measure as a square.

Answer 6

Are you in the UK ? We usually call it a slice.

It's when you cut the strings the bale falls open in sections like sliced bread.