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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky" data-source="post: 1843703" data-attributes="member: 32659"><p>We store our hay in a barn and unroll 99% of the time. I say 99% because if its raining we unroll half the bale instead of the intire roll. I'd say we have less tha 5% hay loss. We have found that unrolling only works if you have enough cows to eat what you unroll. Unrolling a 1,100# bale to 15 cows creates allot of waste and rings would be better. We've also noticed that our calf sickness has gone to near zero since unrolling. I attribute this to the cattle tromping around a muddy hay ring then the calves sucking. I definitely don't think unrolling will work for everyone but it works for us and reduced our hay consumption by half. Not saying that anyone on here doesn't know this but I have a hard time making people understand that cattle won't eat junky hay. If I unroll a bale that's 40% weeds and briars the cattle will waste 40% of that bale. </p><p></p><p> This year we unrolled 2 1,100 pound bales a day and fed 5# of commodity mix in troughs a day to 100 head and the cattle look great. I know guys feeding twice that amount or more of hay to 100 head.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky, post: 1843703, member: 32659"] We store our hay in a barn and unroll 99% of the time. I say 99% because if its raining we unroll half the bale instead of the intire roll. I'd say we have less tha 5% hay loss. We have found that unrolling only works if you have enough cows to eat what you unroll. Unrolling a 1,100# bale to 15 cows creates allot of waste and rings would be better. We've also noticed that our calf sickness has gone to near zero since unrolling. I attribute this to the cattle tromping around a muddy hay ring then the calves sucking. I definitely don't think unrolling will work for everyone but it works for us and reduced our hay consumption by half. Not saying that anyone on here doesn't know this but I have a hard time making people understand that cattle won't eat junky hay. If I unroll a bale that's 40% weeds and briars the cattle will waste 40% of that bale. This year we unrolled 2 1,100 pound bales a day and fed 5# of commodity mix in troughs a day to 100 head and the cattle look great. I know guys feeding twice that amount or more of hay to 100 head. [/QUOTE]
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