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    Hay feeder mess?

    Unroll all my hay. No mess to clean up. Manure is spread where it needs to be.
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    Got warm

    Warm here too. Got over 50" of snow in like 10 days with temps well below zero. Now it's above freezing and turning into a lake. Frozen ground and rapidly melting snow. 10 day forecast doesn't show any cold weather returning.
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    SNOW - WINTER WEATHER

    Over 46" of snow in the last 6 days and still snowing. Winter took its time to arrive bit came in with a vengeance.
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    SNOW - WINTER WEATHER

    120" would be close to a record low snowfall for a season, and the way this winter is going its a possibility. Our long term average is just over 180" and the most snowfall I've seen is 280 some inches. It gets a little challenging at times.
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    How do you call the cows

    Why do they? And what am I to do to herd them up? For instance currently I have a group of 70ish cows and calves on 70 acres of frozen tundra. Couple inches of snow and whatever grass is sticking thru. I unroll hay for them and they all eat up. Then once they are full some will walk to the top...
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    How do you call the cows

    So if cows are scattered in a pasture that's a problem? Is that something that you would try to correct?
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    How do you call the cows

    Reading Bob's posts remind me of talking to politician. Ask them a question and they ramble on for 10 minutes in reply with some make believe fairy tale that leaves everyone intelligent scratching their head. Haha
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    How do you call the cows

    I read that post and you said, and I quote "I'm sorry but that's the only way I will do it.". That my friend is the definition of a demand. Hahaha
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    How do you call the cows

    Interesting. Guess I got good cows the calves all come with and they eat on their way to the gate, often stop in the gate opening to graze, then continue grazing slowly into the next pasture. If I want to walk thru the herd for some reason I just lace up my boots and walk. No need to do any...
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    How do you call the cows

    So by opening the gate to a fresh pasture I am drawing their attention and they come on their own... Guess its not as bad as you make it sound. Hahaha ..
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    How do you call the cows

    Warren and it wouldn't bother me one bit to lose a sale to some guy who demands to bring his horse to my property. What don't I know about cattle and horses? That your trailer could have manure in it that has something my cows don't have? Or your horses hooves could have contaminated manure? Or...
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    How do you call the cows

    I've tried feeding hay in circles. When the snow gets 4-6' deep it's hard to turn circles. Just going straight requires a lot of sawing the wheel and praying. Straight lines keeping one set of tires in the packed tracks from the day before works best.
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    How do you call the cows

    Yep if you said you were bringing your horse to my place I would nicely tell you to pi$$ up a rope. Not that I worry about my cows and horses ( there's a 30yo gelding running with the cows). But I don't want the liability of you on a horse on my place or the risk of your hay burner bringing...
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    How do you call the cows

    Bob I'm still waiting for your answer? You keep talking about pressure and stress around feed. How does any of that apply to a forage based operation?
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    How do you call the cows

    That is for people with calves on feed? How much improvment in adg can your magical "stockmanship" methods really do for a forage based cow calf operation. By using your method to move to another pasture vs my "rattling a gate chain" methods what improvement will I see? Or the 2x or 3x a...
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    How do you call the cows

    I have a couple replacment heifers that are really friendly with my heeler. Afraid they have no fear of K9s and the wolves may have a buffet sometime.
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    How do you call the cows

    So your saying if I "call my cows" to rotate pastures by rattling a bucket or jingling the chain on the gate I am stressing them out and reducing my adg and conception rate?
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    How many could you run?

    If you don't need large volumes of hay and have an affordable custom operator or hay producer then buying hay makes lots of sense. Not all areas have large scale hay producers, or custom operators.
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    How do you call the cows

    I dont feed any of my animals grain where it would change their adg. I feed it to them a handful of times a year to get them to do what I want them too. I don't hand raise any of them. If I had to feed any sort of grain to get good conception rates then those animals would be down the road. If...
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    How do you call the cows

    Bob, so if I can call my cow and heifers by rattling a feed bucket occasionally and they bred back 100% the last few years, can you your methods double my conception rate? Can they now calve twice a year with your method? Haha
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