Wintering horses on small grains field
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gcreekrch
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Just watch they don't start growing wool. :wink:
Think you'd be all right if you limited time on pasture for a few days and they had some dry hay in them when turned out.
Think you'd be all right if you limited time on pasture for a few days and they had some dry hay in them when turned out.
Big Muddy rancher
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Pretty hard to tell from 2000 miles away.
What stage are the plants in and what grains? :?
What stage are the plants in and what grains? :?
katrina
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Big Muddy rancher said:
:agree: :wave:
Faster horses
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katrina said:
:tiphat:
gcreekrch said:
I planted a few 20 to 40 acre deer plots for some hunters oats to be exact and I always filled my cows up on hay and then ran em on the oat patches with no problems, but never had horses on oats i keep em penned/stabled and feed them costal and pellets, mainly because they were always chasing the cows when i wasnt around, but this year cows are few so thought i might run the hay burners on some oats.
good luck
I always plant a 3 acres field in oats or wheat for my horses, pen them up with a bale of coastal or alfalfa then just turn them out when grain is big enough to graze, leave the the hay in pen they have to come in to water and keep it out all the time, i've been doing this for yrs and never had any trouble. No grain last couple yrs from lack of rain but worked well before that. These are usuing horses and get rode on a pretty regular basis so they were not just turned out all the time. don't know if that makes a difference or not
gcreekrch
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Faster horses said:
Just for conversations' sake friends, I think Hay Maker ASKED for opinion on this thread.
I know, I'm also guilty of expressing my opinion when not asked. That still doesn't make it right. :wink:
Faster horses
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Hey, whose side are you on anyway??? :stop: :help: :gag: :wave:
gcreekrch said:Faster horses said:
Just for conversations' sake friends, I think Hay Maker ASKED for opinion on this thread.
I know, I'm also guilty of expressing my opinion when not asked. That still doesn't make it right. :wink:
Yeah, where are all my horsesperts
Good luck
katrina
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Okay...... Since ya asked..... Your horses will be fine...... :cowboy:
gcreekrch
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Faster horses said:
MY own.
Big Muddy rancher
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HAY MAKER said:
Since you so desperately want my opinion :lol: I'd watch the rye fields as it starts to mature as those awns on Rye are mean and sticking their heads down to graze could possibly cause eye trouble.as long as the other grains haven't matured to much to where they have a bunch of grain in the heads you should be OK.
Big Muddy rancher said:
Aint nuthin gonna be on those fields when they head out, hunters will use them during deer season, then I will run a few cull cows & hay burners on them all winter then when it starts warmin up and pastures green up, i chase em all out and ask the rain Gods to be kind, buy some hi dollar liquid nitrogen and cut rake and bale if my luck holds.
Speaking of luck I sold all my cows a few years back waiting for the weather to break and me and the buyer cut a deal he could pick through them , well I wound up with about 10 he didnt want and was gonna haul em to the sale barn just never got hi on my list of things to do, I was back there a few days ago and found 2 new calves, if there is a bull jumping the fence he is mighty good at getting back home after getting after them scrubs i have cause I dont see the fences down or a sign of a bull anywhere.
I got 2 bulls in the pens close to the house that Im feeding but it aint them, bull caint jump a 7 foot fence, might crawl one ? but I feed these every day there aint been out, anyway I dont know wheter thats good luck or bad.
good luck
PS Tell Misss Tam I would like to take her to a New Years party lotsa pickin/singin and good food (charcoaled Ribeye) and whiskey, you stay home and tend the stock