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Feeding Hay in May???

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With what we went thru last year, I sure feel for ya. Your pastures look like ours did then. Sure hope you get some much needed rain soon.......I'll keep blowin, n prayin that you all get it soon.
 
I missed my barn run yesterday evening. I hope to make it tonight. It may take several cool ones to get it started though.
 
I'm still feeding some hay here and there also. My bulls pasture was doing great till that freeze came in and knocked it down. Heifers lot is in the same shape. Main pasture for the cow herd is doing OK as it's got a lot of creek bottoms and water there.

This SUCKS big time!! We should be ready to cut hay now...not waiting for it to grow!!
 
where we live we feed hay till mid may every year, but last year some outfits started feeding in august, god willing we get some much needed rain or it will be a busy fire fighting season this year
 
no matter how bad you think it is, you don't have to look very far to see you really got it pretty good!
 
jigs said:
no matter how bad you think it is, you don't have to look very far to see you really got it pretty good!
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Now this is the truth. I am not in bad shape. a little dry weather ws way better than floods, storms, and fire like so me are dealing with now.
 
We feed hay till June 1 every year. That is when the leases open up and if we are patient in the spring, we can usually last until Jan 1 before haying again.

Grass nneds to get some growth to allow the roots to amass some organic matter for the soil.

Nothing worse for a stand of grass than to pick it off before it feeds what feeds it.
 
Yeah...but here in the South we can stop feeding by Feb/March!!

I've got to put out some rounds this PM and I've got the extra...but it's eating into my " stash" hay now....NOT GOOD!!
 
I stoped feeding back in early march but started back last week. I had to do the same last year. I fed almost all my first cutting. I hope it don't come to that this year. But things could be a lot worse. When you are in farming you have to plan and know thatyou will have years like this.
 
katrina said:
Hang in there........ You're one day closer to a rain..... We are about two weeks late in farming because of the rain, but no complaining here.....
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It will rain one day. If you ask my granddad if it was going to rain he always said "sure it will rain. It allways does sooner or later"
 
Hasn't this been the craziest spring - - - normally I'm getting ready to bale hay and this year with the extream temp fluxuations and twice the normal rain nothing is growing yet. Green everywhere but no growth - - - We had warmth and rain this week so it should start growing. We had an early growth followed by deep freeze and we might have lost the alfalfa.

I complained about mud last year but at least it was warm and the pastures grew. You must be happy for the problems you have - - - htey might get worse.
 
Whwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ok..blowin it your way.....30 and 40% chance Monday n Tuesday for ya in Alabama!!!!! We just had a humdinger of a storm go thru here, missed the house place but dumped buckets on us after leavin the arena. Hopin it done some good out at the cow pastures.
 
Your cattle look good Alabama,for as dry as its been,we been feeding hay year round for several years, drought just seems to never end,maybe its broke around here,cuz this is been the wettest spring I can remember,was walking in some of my back pastures yesterday evening ,and even tho we got moisture it will be years before they recover enough to restock.................good luck
PS hang in there I hear droughts build character :roll:
 
Here's the ' Rain Trigger'.

We caught up the cows yesterday PM and did a ' pour on' job on the whole lot of them. We were thinking it wasn't gonna rain and wash it off.


Well, no more than about 2 hrs later IT RAINED and kept raining lightly all nite!! This is the second time this has happened after working the cows!

So folks in ' Bama....get out the Lysoff and get to work!!!
 

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