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Some Pictures from this winter

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muddyviewrancher

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Getting a cool drink.
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suppose to be the calving pasture. Was no snow 3 weeks ago
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out checking cows, alittle slower than a quad but wont get stuck as easy
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Breakfast time just as the blizzard hits
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Our son out on chore duty
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More chore help she loves seeing the cows.
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I have a love, hate relationship with this machine
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soaking up the sun they day after the storm.
Well this is just some from thid past winter. Sorry about the quality all are taken with my cell phone.
 
Good to see how things are in your neck of the woods. Your "love-hate relationship" picture reminds me of the old Bear Cat grinder mixer my dad had. He raised a lot of registered horned Hereford bulls at the time, and I was the chief grinder-mixer hauler of bull feed. My relationship with the mixer was strictly one of hate. Dad would look at a pile of ear corn from here to breakfast as a winter's supply of bull feed. I looked at the same pile as strictly job security, knowing full well that every last bit of the corn would be shoveled by me twice--once into the grinder-mixer, and once more into the burlap sacks with which we hand fed over a hundred bulls each winter. I don't miss those days one little bit. This is probably the reason calving a bunch of Angus cows in the wintertime month of March doesn't seem like such a bad deal after alll. :-)
 
Soapweed we have a 1260 bear cat sitting in the shed that got retired when i bought the Haybuster.
Hayguy the love is. No more square bales to stack then hand throw into the bear cat, and no longer have to rely on a custom guy we can grind what we want when we want. Now the hate side is no matter how well it is maintained it will breakdown in the coldest stretch of the winter. That could be looked past but we have no building big enough to put it in. I learnt early on that -30 will numb bare hands fast.
 
Loved the pictures. :D Dumb question about the grinder..... Do ya use it to mix hay (Bad/good) to get the cattle to clean it up better? I have never ground hay at home or any of the outfits i've worked on so i just wondered. Always figured a cow came with a set her own grinders and went from there. :D Thanks for posting. Keep it up. :D
 
We use it to blend winter wheat straw into the feed. Also in the ground feed we put our minerals in to the ration. Had to go with straw this year since we are short on hay. Some bugs called alfalfa weviels got into some hay feilds. One feild we lost 50% of our hay crop the other feild we lost 60-70%
 
muddyviewrancher said:
We use it to blend winter wheat straw into the feed. Also in the ground feed we put our minerals in to the ration. Had to go with straw this year since we are short on hay. Some bugs called alfalfa weviels got into some hay feilds. One feild we lost 50% of our hay crop the other feild we lost 60-70%
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We fight weviels out here as well. Little sun of a guns can sure ruin a pretty hayfeild. Thanks for the update. Hope spring finds ya soon and you have a swell summer.
 
Never had them before. Just about lost the one feild before we even knew what was going on. They sure can wreck a nice hay feild. Hope they bugger off this year. Suppose to start melting soon and you have a great summer aswell.
 
Never had them before. Just about lost the one feild before we even knew what was going on. They sure can wreck a nice hay feild. Hope they bugger off this year. Suppose to start melting soon and you have a great summer aswell.
 

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