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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1654782" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>There are people who use a tractor but they are pulling a trailer or wagon. You can move or load with a tractor but as soon as you cut the strings it is one big pile. Setting bales out the bossy cows get plenty the weaker ones get short changed and weaker. My neighbor (the boss) feeds this way he calves out a pretty large herd. Part of these cows are mine and part his. I know that winter before last he was feeding 23 bales a day using this method.</p><p></p><p>It is meadow grass hay. Right now there is 57 head. That is a little short on the hay but there is a lot of regrowth grazing in that field for now. It is 25 acres of irrigated hay meadow and about 25 acres of ground that varies from 5 acres of meadow grass that didn't get mowed to 10 acres of crested wheat grass, and about 10 acres of sage brush rangeland. They aren't doing a real good job of cleaning it up right now. As we add more cows and the grazing is gone we will have to increase the amount fed. We typically figure about one bale for 40-42 cows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1654782, member: 498"] There are people who use a tractor but they are pulling a trailer or wagon. You can move or load with a tractor but as soon as you cut the strings it is one big pile. Setting bales out the bossy cows get plenty the weaker ones get short changed and weaker. My neighbor (the boss) feeds this way he calves out a pretty large herd. Part of these cows are mine and part his. I know that winter before last he was feeding 23 bales a day using this method. It is meadow grass hay. Right now there is 57 head. That is a little short on the hay but there is a lot of regrowth grazing in that field for now. It is 25 acres of irrigated hay meadow and about 25 acres of ground that varies from 5 acres of meadow grass that didn't get mowed to 10 acres of crested wheat grass, and about 10 acres of sage brush rangeland. They aren't doing a real good job of cleaning it up right now. As we add more cows and the grazing is gone we will have to increase the amount fed. We typically figure about one bale for 40-42 cows. [/QUOTE]
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