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Northern Rancher

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An old [press drill transport would work good to move 3 or 4 of those 500 gal blue plastic troughs. I'd like to take an open quarter or so and manipulate grazing by just moving the water daily-we might not need as much fence as one thinks.
 

Grassfarmer

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A tank we use for water either to park beside the river and pump out like it is here or on occasion to haul short distances. I really built it for a quarter that has the river on 3 sides but nowhere the cows can access it. Fill it with a gas pump (1200 gall - doesn't take too long) then park it where we want it. If we are hauling away from the river with it I just park the tractor in the field and walk out to it each day, hook up, fill and unhook it which hardly uses any diesel. From what we have seen with this I'm inclined to agree with what NR is suggesting. It certainly is effective to get cows into areas that are underutilised. This is not huge capacity but it usually lasts 70-80 cows a day in hot weather or 40 for 2 days. There is a 40 gallon trough on the back with a Gallagher high flo valve on it.

OK Bward I've got to ask you - what's wrong with a wide head on a bull?
 

per

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Bward said:
OK Bward I've got to ask you - what's wrong with a wide head on a bull?
They tend to throw babies with big wide heads on them which make them more difficult to be born.
GF, I would be willing to test that theory out next year if you were to rent me that bull.
 

Grassfarmer

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per said:
Bward said:
OK Bward I've got to ask you - what's wrong with a wide head on a bull?
They tend to throw babies with big wide heads on them which make them more difficult to be born.
GF, I would be willing to test that theory out next year if you were to rent me that bull.

Well Bward I guessed that would be your reason, all I can say it's never been a problem with us. Then again I don't look for steer fronted bulls to breed my heifers. The idea that masculine bulls give you calving troubles is largely unfounded - look at the buffalo and tell me why under thousands of years of natural selection ALL the sires have big necks and shoulders and nobody assists them at calving time.
Sorry, no go Per we need him here. I will have a couple of sons for sale this winter as rising twos. :lol:
 

per

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Grassfarmer said:
per said:
Bward said:
They tend to throw babies with big wide heads on them which make them more difficult to be born.
GF, I would be willing to test that theory out next year if you were to rent me that bull.

Well Bward I guessed that would be your reason, all I can say it's never been a problem with us. Then again I don't look for steer fronted bulls to breed my heifers. The idea that masculine bulls give you calving troubles is largely unfounded - look at the buffalo and tell me why under thousands of years of natural selection ALL the sires have big necks and shoulders and nobody assists them at calving time.
Sorry, no go Per we need him here. I will have a couple of sons for sale this winter as rising twos. :lol:
I will give that some thought GF. I think a bull should look like a bull.
 

Grassfarmer

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Not using this as a sales forum but the picture below that I posted on another thread a while back shows one of the sons. He would be about 17 months in the photo but raised on a forage only system. A 70lb b.w calf out of a heifer he will be similar framed to his sire with more hip, less hair but maybe a little shorter body. Same wide head though - it's what I was brought up thinking was a sign of character.

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Grassfarmer

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Ben H, I had been thinking about that this summer but the only ones I've seen here are the type sold with poly tape ready loaded on them at about $120 each. The problem I have with them is that the reels don't detach so you have to leave the whole insulated reel deal hooked onto the fenceline. (The only place I see them in use are with the horse owners who own these plus a grand total of about 12 step in posts) :roll:
When I'm fencing a lot that would get expensive, I have about 16 reels of polywire and at times most of them are in use at once. Nearly all my cross fencing is in short runs - if I can keep them to 6-10 post lengths I'm happy as its easy to pack the posts and wire. I don't really mind the exercise of winding up reels - that and walking are about the only forms of exercise I get. I find I can wind as quick as I can walk so would I need to run if I had a geared reel :???: :lol:
Seriously though I'm not opposed to the concept of geared reels - can you point me to affordable, detachable reel that are geared?
 

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