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  1. tex452

    Home made poly hay rings

    I don’t know much about poly rings other than seeing them, a friend has some but I never checked to see how they held up. On another deal, I bought 18 rings from a guy in north East Texas, he delivered them for $260/, they are made out of sucker rod, he done a very good job on them, they are...
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    How much hay can a cow eat?

    I have about 200 acres closed off hoping for warmer weather where the rye will start to come. With the rain this week and warmer weather next week it should be decent in a couple weeks.
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    How much hay can a cow eat?

    They do inhale it in cold weather, we had to start feeding in August because of the drought, we fed a lot more than we planned.
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    Buying Johnson grass seed

    I don’t think so, my cows have got out on a county road in the summer time and ate some, they didn’t die, but got shaky and went down. They didn’t eat that much before I got them back in or it might have killed them. The affects wore off after a while and they were ok. I was going down the...
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    Buying Johnson grass seed

    When I was a boy a lot of people planted Johnson grass, so did my dad, he had it sprigged instead of seed. The neighbors cow’s broke into my grandpas patch and two cows died from nitrate poisoning.
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    Hay lease for 65 acres from City of Coleman Tx..

    I own property in Coleman county. The summers can be brutal with no rain. There’s a chance very little hay will be made so I would not pay much.
  7. tex452

    To much much hay???

    My mama and my granny made homemade ketchup, I use to put it on homemade bread and eat it like that.
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    To much much hay???

    Sorry for your loss Warren, we lost daddy in 2015, and we lost mama this year in January, it’s not easy.
  9. tex452

    Army worms

    I have an infestation of army worms in Leon county, not as bad as years past.
  10. tex452

    Murphy’s law of hay baling

    My son is wanting to get into the square bale business, I don’t have a big barn on the place we can make the best/most hay, so I would have to build a barn to hold at least 10k squares. I’m thinking.
  11. tex452

    I quit

    That looks good
  12. tex452

    No wonder we have problems.

    I bought some hay this year that has needle grass in it. I’m not happy about that.
  13. tex452

    How’s your grass?

    It was bad last year, but my grass at home is as crunchy as I have ever seen it.
  14. tex452

    How’s your grass?

    My pastures are in worse shape this year than last year.
  15. tex452

    How’s your grass?

    The biggest difference between this year and last is that our tanks have a lot more water in them than last summer.
  16. tex452

    Putting up hay

    Ended up with 120 rolls instead of 170, my son said he told hay men we wanted another fifty, the hay man forgot or whatever, but he sold it to someone else, miscommunication I guess?
  17. tex452

    How’s your grass?

    It’s been 100+ degrees for I don’t know how many days here with no relief in sight. Grass is turning browner by the day.
  18. tex452

    Putting up hay

    86 rolls in the barn 34 stacked on the backside of our place. Hopefully we can get the barn filled this year if we get rain?
  19. tex452

    Putting up hay

    It’s bad dry here too. My hay guy said he has been having trouble getting rid of hay this year. The numbers aren’t there like there was a couple years back.
  20. tex452

    Putting up hay

    Should finish tomorrow
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