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Northern Rancher
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: saskatchewan
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| No wiring moving here lol But I can feel their shame lol.
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Denny
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: Mn usa
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Both of my balers are soft core I just cut the strings and shake them on the loader they self distruct pretty well.If there is left over hay all over the cows get shorted a bale or two that day.
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Cal
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
Posts: 3617
Location: Southern SD
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:43 am Post subject: |
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| Rumen,Reticullum,Omasum and Abomasum work great here-I've hired bale processing done and never could make it pencil for mature cows-just made alot of busy-happy dust for the operator. They don't make poor hay better but they sure send leaves off good hay off into the wild blue yonder. Maybe if you were processing into bunks but blowing leaves all over the snow for the cows too mulch doesn't seem to make sense to me. Just being the devil's advocate. |
If there's a little mold in the hay, I'd just as soon see it blown into the wild blue yonder, most of the alfalfa leaves are actually left on and in the windrow if you just look, and if you're in a heavy snow or mud situation your best bet is a processor and a MFWD loader. Tried to pencil out feeding cows with a team, but too many would probably starve before we got to them all. Also haying meadows, those bales need to be gotten off of there before the water rises in the fall, and getting those bales off allows for some late grazing of regrowth without getting the bales tore to hell by a bunch of cows.
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Northern Rancher
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: saskatchewan
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| HUH? Did I ever tell you not to haul your bales out of the meadows that's just silly. I know that no man dare stand between a man and his favorite iron-I apologize for that. As for processing bales onto muddy ground it makes a fine clay/alfalfa pate' that I'm sure some cows eat with relish unfortunately not mine. The only time a processor worked for us was on canola bales that were baled with snow in them. They started to heat and we hired 800 of them shredded in about four days. We put 20 or 30 per paddock and treated it as swath grazing. In my operation we gave processors a fair shot but found no benefit-if they work for yours that's good.
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