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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1652509" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>When feeding hay in the muddy season, unrolling across a large area would probably be a much better fit. Spread the cattle out alot more, with alot less concentration of hoof traffic in one spot. However, when the ground's frozen, bale grazing can work really well. As for drifting in and around bales set out ahead of time, I put mine out in "open field" but try to have them tucked in directly on the east/SE side of a woods, and on sandy ground. Hardly ever drifts at all back in there. Woods filter most of the snow out of the wind. Deciduous works even better than a more dense conifer break. But out in the open field without the woods, it'll bury 'em for sure. If you can't have woods, maybe putting them on the east/SE slope behind a hill would do it... usually the snow doesn't blow around alot there either, snow falls out for the most part on the leeward side of the hill. We usually get about 80+" of snow a year total here, probably quite a bit different if you're dealing with lake effect snows though...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1652509, member: 39018"] When feeding hay in the muddy season, unrolling across a large area would probably be a much better fit. Spread the cattle out alot more, with alot less concentration of hoof traffic in one spot. However, when the ground's frozen, bale grazing can work really well. As for drifting in and around bales set out ahead of time, I put mine out in "open field" but try to have them tucked in directly on the east/SE side of a woods, and on sandy ground. Hardly ever drifts at all back in there. Woods filter most of the snow out of the wind. Deciduous works even better than a more dense conifer break. But out in the open field without the woods, it'll bury 'em for sure. If you can't have woods, maybe putting them on the east/SE slope behind a hill would do it... usually the snow doesn't blow around alot there either, snow falls out for the most part on the leeward side of the hill. We usually get about 80+" of snow a year total here, probably quite a bit different if you're dealing with lake effect snows though... [/QUOTE]
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