Feeding pics from this morning

[randiliana]

I was feeding this morning, and took my camera with me for once. It was warming up nicely, and then of course the wind started to blow.

We are feeding about 90 head here, and they are getting an alfalfa bale every other day as added supplement. Other than that they eat at the feed bunk, which is ground Barley straw, hay and kochia/barley bales. it's about 1/2 straw. They also have salt and access to some Promolas. And, of course, water which is chopped open every morning.

My favorite cow, waiting patiently for me to roll that bale out....

Gobbling it up, there is hay in there.....

See, there it is

A heifer

And, a couple cows

A hind end view

No 5% waste here...

A snowy heifer, she didn't look like this earlier....

The feed bunk, oops, she's not supposed to be IN there

The feed bunk again, that's better....

 

[WyomingRancher]

Looking good . BTW, did you Lutalyse your heifers before turning the bulls out? I thought you were thinking of doing it. My heifers are starting to change a little, and I'm anxious to see if the Lutalyse got them grouped-up again, I'll know for sure the end of February .

 

[per]

I like your favorite cow. Excellent low cost feed bunk system as well.

 

[Hereford76]

that is pretty much the same way I used to feed cows when we were January calving. 1/2 straw chopped with either alfalfa/grass hay or sudak hay. I even ran a hot wire over their heads in an attempt to keep the calves from crawling through bunk like that.

the critter you got standing on the wrong side brings back a lot of painful memories. I always had a couple critters that would crawl through all winter long and bed down in it at night - drove me wacky and by the end of the winter my patience usually ran low and I would end up locking them up and feeding them separate.

neat to see your pictures

 

[randiliana]

Looking good . BTW, did you Lutalyse your heifers before turning the bulls out? I thought you were thinking of doing it. My heifers are starting to change a little, and I'm anxious to see if the Lutalyse got them grouped-up again, I'll know for sure the end of February .

Yes, we did. We did it a little different than most though. Estrumated them the first part of May when we vaccinated, then turned bulls with them 15 days later. I think they will be fairly tight. I pregchecked when they should have been about 90-100 days along, and I didn't have many that I had trouble finding the calf. As often as I do it I need them over about 90 days to be relatively sure about a calf. They are starting to make udders now, so in about 2 months, I can tell you how it worked 8)

 

[randiliana]

I like your favorite cow. Excellent low cost feed bunk system as well.

She is a darn good cow. We've had 4 calves out of her and they all have been well over 650 lbs at weaning. Wish I could have a whole herd like that :lol:

The feed bunk is pretty good, took us a while to work the kinks out of it. But finally we ran barbed wire and it works pretty good.

 

[randiliana]

that is pretty much the same way I used to feed cows when we were January calving. 1/2 straw chopped with either alfalfa/grass hay or sudak hay. I even ran a hot wire over their heads in an attempt to keep the calves from crawling through bunk like that.

the critter you got standing on the wrong side brings back a lot of painful memories. I always had a couple critters that would crawl through all winter long and bed down in it at night - drove me wacky and by the end of the winter my patience usually ran low and I would end up locking them up and feeding them separate.

neat to see your pictures

We are feeding about 50% straw, 25% hay and 25% kochia/barley in that bunk. Giving a bit of extra hay just to be safe.

Yeah, we have about 3 in there almost every morning. Have a couple that have no respect for the wire and just walk under it. Would love to figure out a way to give them a 'real' shock. I would separate them, but it is just too much work. We have no real working system there, and as cold as it has been I don't really want to get the horse out to catch them. The leader is really trying my patience , it is a good thing we don't carry a gun with us in the truck :wink:

 

[CattleArmy]

Looks cold. With the electic fence and hay mound feeding reminds me of years ago when the place my husband was at tried that. Then ya pitched from the top or moved the fence back to keep them fed. We were so much younger then.