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    say Per, about hay presevative...

    OK We are just east of Lethbridge. When we have had hay that was not curring I have an inverter the picks up the hay and behind the pickup teeth is a big plastic fin that flips the swath upside down on dry ground. It works very good. Just had to learn how to operate it properly. It took 2-3...
  2. J

    say Per, about hay presevative...

    I have an applicater for dry preservative. I have never used it, but knew a guy by Calgary that used it most times. He used a product call haymate. It is a Gandy applicater. It mounts above the pickup and blows the powder on to the hay as it is being feed into the baler pickup. If you are...
  3. J

    Feeding oats

    We are buying 6oo# replacement type hiefers and are feeding them alfalfa and mostly orchard grass hay. Also have some oats. Should they be fed whole or lightlty rolled or not required atall. Any experiences or comments would be welcomed.
  4. J

    Haying solutions

    We put up about 10,000 small squares of hay. Use a disk bine to cut, an inverter the flip curing hay over on to dry ground, A Hesston small square baler and a New Holland pull type bale wagon to pile(104 bales). All this is done by myself over two cuts. Wife helps put tarps on top of the stack...
  5. J

    Cutting triple mix

    it took about 2 weeks to cure. The wheat and pea kernerals that were more mature than the oats took the longest. No spoiled bales. Lucky to that long with no rain.
  6. J

    Cutting triple mix

    with the hay, a few greenfeed small squares and about 3# rolled barley, about 1.6#'s a day gain on black replacement hiefers
  7. J

    Cutting triple mix

    we did the same thing last year, with oats ,peas and wheat. Fed it to 600# calves with free choice alfalfa/orchard grass in big rounds. We used wheat instead of barley to keep away from the barley beards. Cut it when the oats was in the milk stage and the wheat had already reached the doe stage...
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