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Clouds and caking cows

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Soapweed

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A cacophony of cows crunching cake
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The girls club
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Clouds and cows
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A study in cow expressions
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Weed in the wind
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Moon up at sundown
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Kluttered kaleidoscope of klouds
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A shot of the moon
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And another
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Sundown
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Cloud down
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Crooning a tune to the moon
 
I could have caked your cows for you today Soap-- I'd just need to start the cake feeder spitting them out and they wouldn't have landed until Nebraska once the wind hit them...

If this wind heads your direction you will see that windmill fan orbiting the moon :wink: :lol:

Seriously I think it has dropped a little- I'm starting to hear myself think over the continual howl of the wind...
 
Have you noticed Soapweed, that we are one of the few folks on here that feed "cake"? Is there a origin story on why us sandhills ranchers call it cake instead of cubes or whatever else it's called? I just love the the windmill whirling with the moon...that's a great picture. I don't get very many pictures of caking the cows..cause if I sit still to long..the critters are after me for more :!:
 
I grew up calling it "cake", but most around me feed pellets, or cubes.

Somehow, "caking the cows" sounds better than "cubing or pelleting the cows", but I don't know why.
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Isn't it comical what you get used to?

OT, I got a kick out of your comment, that was pretty funny.

Badlands
 
Shortgrass said:
Never heard of a cacophony before. All those big words get me confused. Mighty nice pictures though--Thanks.
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throw out your Websters version, and get you a Soapweed dictionary.
 
Badlands said:
I grew up calling it "cake", but most around me feed pellets, or cubes.

Somehow, "caking the cows" sounds better than "cubing or pelleting the cows", but I don't know why.
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Isn't it comical what you get used to?

OT, I got a kick out of your comment, that was pretty funny.

Badlands
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H-m-m-m-m-m - those of us who grew up calling it "cake" are getting few and far between - maybe even "seldom!"
The reason it was called 'cake" was because cotton seed "Cake" was sacked and by the time you opened the sack it had 'compacted' and was -sort of-compressed into the configuration of the sack. If it got slightly damp from rain or snow - it was "cake-y". Dusty if it was dry. Then they got smart and began cubing and pelleting the material. Good move! Same thing with "Alfalfa Cubes". Saves space and labor and waste in certain circumstances.

If I heard a Rancher say, "Well- - I must go pellet the cows!" I would look sideways at him and look for a limp wrist!! :roll: :wink:

DOC HARRIS
 
Thanks Doc for the "cake" explanation. I figured it had to do something with cotton seed cake...
When I first met Lilly...she had never heard the term "caking cows",,she laughed and wanted to know if I served Chocolate Cake to em...lol
 
Well, on this outfit we fill up our cakers and cake our cattle. Don't really know why we call it that.
 
We feed lots of cake around here. I assumed that it is called that because they used to always be wafer cake that we fed, and they looked like little "cakes". We feed 7/8 round to cows, and 3/4 round to weaned calves. There may be cheaper feeds, but it is very convenient. I have said that I think there may be a place for the lick tubs, but we can feed 3-4 lbs. of cake to what they get for 1 lb. of the lick.

We do not normally feed ear corn (cob corn) to cows, but we have occasionally. I have ran into ranchers further west of here that think that feeding ear corn sounds very strange.
 
Forgot to add that as we calve a little later than some around here, we start feeding cake most years later than most, and we feed it later than most. We normally start sometime after the first of the year to possibly February, then feed it until the middle of May when our grass is strong. We feed it late for the Mag. that we need to get into the cows. We know they are getting the Mag. for sure that way.

We also feed cake for a supplement to the grass. If we fed hay on a daily basis, I think there would be a cheaper way of getting the supplement into the cows.
 
No cake down here, just cubes. But then again, we have tanks instead of ponds, too. :lol:
 
Great pictures as usual. I don't really know why noone feeds cake here, maybe it's not available. We feed loose protien when they are on grass in the fall/winter. I hadn't seen cake til I worked in Neb. It's pretty tasty though :P
 
Enjoyed the pictures as always,we also called our field suppliments 'cake'
feedlots fed pellets and cubes which are square, the range cubes here are called 'rolls' as in most things,terminology is geographically diverse.
 
I finally asked and our soybean hull cake has 15% protein, and it has corn,wheatmids,little canola, vitamin pack, didn't have a tag handy to see exactly what's all in it. Cows luv it...
 
Well they call it "cubes" here...even tho they are round....that's another thing that I wondered about. LOL yer taught in school a cube is square.....and they aint when yer feedin cows. Ours are made from mostly cotton seed.

Most of the time we don't say anything other than.."feedin the cows" some say "sackin" Mine will come runnin at the rattle of a paper feed sack, but what we are feedin this year is loose and comes in a plastic burlap (toe sack) kinda bag. No matter.....all it takes is the honk of my lil toyota horn and here they come.

makes you wonder if those dairy's that are feedin candy to their milk cows...call it "Candyin the cows" or..after they're done....they have "candied cows"
 
makes you wonder if those dairy's that are feedin candy to their milk cows...call it "Candyin the cows" or..after they're done....they have "candied cows"
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Feeding 'candy' to milk cows!! :shock: :roll: :???: Will that make them give "Peppermint Flavored" Milk? Or if they were fed Oreo Cookies would they give Chocolate milk? . . . or . . .if they were fed Doublemint Gum woud they produce ..two. . .two. . . two calves?? How about . . . .Peanut Brittle?? ..>>>>would they give Crunchy Peanut Butter?? ---or- - -fed Sweet Potatoes would they give "Candied Yams"?? Try - fed Baby Ruth! Would they give Baby Formula? Or, as my Grandma used to say, ". . . .'sweet' milk "? If they were fed Sweet Clover would they give "Less " Pedeza?

Okay, that did it! I quit.

DOC HARRIS
 
From the deal I seen on RVD they feed all kinda candy. Anything that's a reject.....and it's shipped to the dairy's in huge square boxes......

The result from feeding the candy they say is about double the milk production.
 

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