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<blockquote data-quote="T &amp;amp; B farms" data-source="post: 1560564" data-attributes="member: 34352"><p>I have thought very hard about buying a mixer. Keep talking myself out of it. Having several pastures 6-10 miles from home I think I would live in the tractor. </p><p>I've started unrolling hay the last couple years. It has worked great. We don't have huge pastures here like some of you do. My largest pasture has 50 pairs in it. I unrole them one 5x6 bale of good fescue daily, and they completely eat it. Same with a couple 40 cow pastures. If it's dry you can't even tell where you unrolled it other than all the manure around it. One place I have 2 pastures of 25. I will split them a bale daily. They eat it in 3-4 hours then go pick through the pastures. (Still quite a bit of grass left) I have fed much less hay than I used to, and the cows are doing just as good. Can tell a noticeable difference in the pastures where I unrole. When it's muddy I still feed in rings, but when it freezes I'm back to unrolling. For some reason they don't eat my silage oat bales very well when unrolling, yet they will lick the ground when I put them in feeders. Haven't figured that one out yet. </p><p>Only downfall I have found is listining to all the old timers tell me how unrolling won't work, and how wasteful it is. Apparently the proper way to feed hay is to put out 10 bales of the worst/cheapest hay you can get, and put a protein tub every 20 feet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="T & B farms, post: 1560564, member: 34352"] I have thought very hard about buying a mixer. Keep talking myself out of it. Having several pastures 6-10 miles from home I think I would live in the tractor. I’ve started unrolling hay the last couple years. It has worked great. We don’t have huge pastures here like some of you do. My largest pasture has 50 pairs in it. I unrole them one 5x6 bale of good fescue daily, and they completely eat it. Same with a couple 40 cow pastures. If it’s dry you can’t even tell where you unrolled it other than all the manure around it. One place I have 2 pastures of 25. I will split them a bale daily. They eat it in 3-4 hours then go pick through the pastures. (Still quite a bit of grass left) I have fed much less hay than I used to, and the cows are doing just as good. Can tell a noticeable difference in the pastures where I unrole. When it’s muddy I still feed in rings, but when it freezes I’m back to unrolling. For some reason they don’t eat my silage oat bales very well when unrolling, yet they will lick the ground when I put them in feeders. Haven’t figured that one out yet. Only downfall I have found is listining to all the old timers tell me how unrolling won’t work, and how wasteful it is. Apparently the proper way to feed hay is to put out 10 bales of the worst/cheapest hay you can get, and put a protein tub every 20 feet. [/QUOTE]
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