BRG
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We chopped oats this week. It is the first time to ever have a silage of any kind on our place. It did very well. Should be real good feed for the calves.
Photos - Chopped oats this week
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per
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Looks like fun. I spend many years as the pit boss making sure all was right. A good pack is important. Thanks for the tour.
Big Muddy rancher
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you will really like how the calves do on silage. i fed it for a few years just to much hassle finding a chopper crew.
Most up here don't use bales they just make pile and that way they can cover the edge with plastic a weight the edges of plastic with dirt.
Most up here don't use bales they just make pile and that way they can cover the edge with plastic a weight the edges of plastic with dirt.
Justin
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the oats looks like it did well, should make great feed. i should have finished baling the first half of our oats this morning, but got a nice shower last nite, dang :wink: i'm going to combine the last half of the oats, it is looking pretty good. hopefully we can get to it before the big white combine does.
rancherfred
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We just got our oats and peas chopped last week. It is also our first year for having silage. I was checking them a couple of weeks prior to that and started noticing all of these oat plants with heads sticking up quite a ways above all the rest of the crop. After looking a little closer at those plants I found that they had awns on the seed. Somehow the "inspectors" had missed the wild oats plants in the certified seed field.
It is hard to believe how much the crew took off our circle. When we got done and settled up they had taken just shy of 13 ton. Since I had never had silage chopped before I didn't know if that was very good. If I did the math right it figures out to an equivalent of about 6 ton of hay. That seemed like a pretty good yield too me.
It is hard to believe how much the crew took off our circle. When we got done and settled up they had taken just shy of 13 ton. Since I had never had silage chopped before I didn't know if that was very good. If I did the math right it figures out to an equivalent of about 6 ton of hay. That seemed like a pretty good yield too me.
leanin' H
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Your calves will just bloom on that silage! 
Our's do great on it! Thanks for the neat tour of your operation.
Our's do great on it! Thanks for the neat tour of your operation.Cal
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Looks good. Interesting new experience I imagine. Do you have a feedwagon, or how are you going to feed it?
BRG
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Ya we have a mixer wagon that we have been using for quite a few years now.