Recent content by CJ John

One other thing I forgot to mention also is that having it hydraulically spun off instead of utilizing "ground unrolling" with a UTV or tractor ----- you can put the piles in the pasture where ever you want and you can totally avoid the muddy areas !!

When I unrolled the hay in a line like most hay unrollers, my cows would start at one end and have a race to the other end. This would result in a fair amount of the hay being walked into the ground. I have finally bought a hydraulic "unroller" that fits on the back of the tractor or the front...

On Halloween --- some friends of mine knew of a tomato patch where the tomatoes were all ready rotten so we thought we would grab some. As we were collecting rotten tomatoes to throw at our friends, the single cop in town came rolling down the street and had his spotlight on, shining out over...

I checked once on using SOY BEAN oil for dust control. Lot of people say its GREAT!!! Not too cheap though----- especially for 3.5 miles!!!

I was bitten by a copperhead after dark in my yard. I got in the light and saw two puncture marks on my ankle. I killed the snake and took it to the hospital with me. A DNR guy showed up and verified it was a copperhead, They watched for about 1 1/2 hour and nothing really happened. A few...

The sale barn manager has finally got back with me and now said that my heifer wasn't CRIPPLED as the description stated --- it just wasn't a good black heifer! He said he'll send me the video of it going through the ring! WELL -- it certainly wasn't SCRAWNY at all --- and 59 cents is a...

Thanks for your comment. I went back and looked at the VOLUME for that day--- and they typically run about 300 to 400 head each sale day! Headage on the day mine was "crippled" was ALMOST 1000! I don't see where they'd even have ROOM in the place for a 1000 head!

Recently I hauled a steer for my neighbor and a heifer for myself to the sale barn. We had a real easy load and the unload went well. After we were done, we went up on the catwalks to see what was there for sale. Ours were in a pen and there weren't too many there since we were the day before...

Dad farmed for years on the family farm on a CASH basis. Then he went to Buy the farm off his father and went to the bank to get a LOAN! They said he had NO CREDIT RATING --- even though he had a LOT of MONEY in their bank! He scowled at the president of the bank and said "I've farmed...

I tried putting a small band on the horn to get rid of it--- but it kept sliding UP. A neighbor lady who had raised cattle all her life with her husband looked at me and said --- YOU know how to fix that don't you? I said no -- and she rolled her eyes. She informed me that you take a round...

I unrolled for several years--- then I used a spinner on my skid steer. I would leave small piles over the pasture. NOW -- instead of walking down the "hay path" -- the cows gathered in GROUPS around each pile and pretty well ate all of it --- without walking too much into the ground...