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HAY MAKER

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finally gettin caught up on hay chores,sure been a strange year,coolest in 18 years and one of the wettest,maybe the drought is over around here,its got me thinking about buying a few cows,and building another hay barn,we got hay stuck everywhere,some still in the fields,just no place to put it,altho I have to say the quality would have to be categorized as poor,just could'nt get in the fields at the right time.
good luck
 
Sometimes that 'poorer' hay is better than you think. Get a forage test on it, Haymaker, before you buy a lot of protein supplement. JMHO...
Range cows, especially in the south, don't need the quality of hay those in the north do, mainly because of the weather.

We test a lot of hay and I can only remember one time when the quality of the hay was bad enough that the producer needed to buy protein supplement. We are over-sold protein by every feed dealer out there.

(not that you were intending to buy any supplement..you didn't say that...I just thought it was a good time for a reminder... :shock: )
 
Faster horses said:
Sometimes that 'poorer' hay is better than you think. Get a forage test on it, Haymaker, before you buy a lot of protein supplement. JMHO...
Range cows, especially in the south, don't need the quality of hay those in the north do, mainly because of the weather.

We test a lot of hay and I can only remember one time when the quality of the hay was bad enough that the producer needed to buy protein supplement. We are over-sold protein by every feed dealer out there.

(not that you were intending to buy any supplement..you didn't say that...I just thought it was a good time for a reminder... :shock: )
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thank you for the reminder,I been thinking about doing a lil changing this winter on the protein supplements,the older I get,the better those lick tanks look :wink:
good luck
 
PureCountry said:
Congrats Haymaker. At least most of it is in the sheds and not laying in the swath. Gotta look at the glass half full! :lol: Good work.
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Thanks...........yes got em in the shed,sure was a lot rained on this year,dang weather has been strange.......it rained the last three days,and thundering as I type this.
good luck
 
The main farm puts up about 3-4 thousand rolls a year....so I guessed they'd never miss what I needed......soooooooo..... my barns are full also!!!! :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
 
HAY MAKER said:
PureCountry said:
Congrats Haymaker. At least most of it is in the sheds and not laying in the swath. Gotta look at the glass half full! :lol: Good work.
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Thanks...........yes got em in the shed,sure was a lot rained on this year,dang weather has been strange.......it rained the last three days,and thundering as I type this.
good luck
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Yep the rain yall got in Texas was supposed to in part be some of ours here in the Southeast. It seemed like those fronts could never make it to the Mississippi River. I am glad you got plenty of hay. I am trying to find some corn stalks to bale to try to make it through winter.
 
I wished I had all those bales then I wouldn't have to chop silage. I hate chopping silage!!
 
feeder said:
I wished I had all those bales then I wouldn't have to chop silage. I hate chopping silage!!
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Want some help I like chopping corn have'nt had any to chop the last 2 years but next year we will.

Hay in the shed is like money in the bank.The one thing about poor hay is if it won't make a turd it will push one.
 
We've been chopping for a week. We can't seem to have one good day yet but we had cattle and hogs we had to get to market also this week. We should get the first pile done today. I'm trying to tell the better half not to do another pile because it will be just him and me to do it next week. The son will be racing all next week at supernationals. Denny, if you lived closer I'd take you in a heart beat!! The corn so far has been running from nothing to good in the field. It is the strangest thing this year. What you thought would be good wasn't, and what you thought would be poor was good. Go figure.
 
Sialge chopping has been going on here for at least a couple of weeks but it was slowed there with the heavy rains a bit.. But now seed corn is being picked and you see the seedcorn husklage running all over the place and things are just starting to pick up.. A few fields look almost ready for combining and I would guess in 2 weeks that will start up pretty good. Was talking to a couple fellas and they told me they thought they might start after labord day weekend.. Looking at the fields tehy don't look ready to me but since I am baling stalks like a mad man this fall I best be getting the fuel in that we will need and the netwrap..
 
Haymaker, when you get that hay tested, will you post the analysis for us?
I'm betting that hay is better than one thinks.
As an industry we have been sold a bill of goods from feed stores selling protein supplements. 10-12% protein hay is plenty for a range cow as long as she gets enough of it.
 
Faster horses said:
Haymaker, when you get that hay tested, will you post the analysis for us?
I'm betting that hay is better than one thinks.
As an industry we have been sold a bill of goods from feed stores selling protein supplements. 10-12% protein hay is plenty for a range cow as long as she gets enough of it.
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Yes,I will I gotta find another place to have it tested tho,seems like lots of folks are disappointed with the testing done by A&M............good luck
 
Faster horses said:
Send it to Stearns. I'll get you the address...they are fast too.
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OK,I might send it in to A & M too,just got off the phone with a neighbor and he sez....the problems have been solved over there.........good luck

PS Im betting it dont test 6%
 
Faster horses said:
Ok, you're on. (Course I'm handicapped as I don't know much about Texas hay. In Montana the hay can be poor and still run 9-10%)

Stearns Labs.
82512 12th St. South
P.O. Box 227
Sauk Cente, Mn. 56378-0227
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See Haymaker you want something done right you send up here to us pig farming wanna be cowboy's :wink:
 
Faster horses said:
NO, NO, NO, Denny. That wasn't haymaker calling us that, it was AZCowpuncher...remember?????????? :lol: :lol: :lol:

and he wouldn't know what hay is, let alone test it... :shock:
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I know but he's been ribbing me on my pigs.

Maybe they could do a feed sample on pine needles and cactus for the Wild Bunch..
 

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