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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 880486" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>Caustic, I have NOT been to a goat ropin, or rat killin but I have been to a county fair.... A point here is that I purchase all of my hay. I look at buying hay as cheaper than buying more land and I have neither the machinery nor the time to make good hay. And this is good stuff made by a local retired dairyman who loves to make good hay. </p><p></p><p>So I look at hay a bit different than most folks that make their own on larger acres and have stacks of 2 or 3 year old bales around in field corners. I feed it out by the pound at 3%/day and I hate to waste an inch on the outside of these 1500lb 5 x 6ft dia bales. They are about 13% protein.</p><p></p><p>It is "neat" for reasons and I think it pays off. My goal is to produce as many pounds of high quality, "natural", birth-to-plate freezer beef PER ACRE as I can. Wrapping my late winter hay like this saves $$ and keeps quality up.</p><p></p><p>These wrapped bales on this end will be fed at and just after start of calving next March 25th thru April and to turn out about May 1. So I want good hay for nursing cows at a difficult time of year.</p><p></p><p>Hope you folks in TX get some rain... Happy Thanksgiving to you.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 880486, member: 7509"] Caustic, I have NOT been to a goat ropin, or rat killin but I have been to a county fair.... A point here is that I purchase all of my hay. I look at buying hay as cheaper than buying more land and I have neither the machinery nor the time to make good hay. And this is good stuff made by a local retired dairyman who loves to make good hay. So I look at hay a bit different than most folks that make their own on larger acres and have stacks of 2 or 3 year old bales around in field corners. I feed it out by the pound at 3%/day and I hate to waste an inch on the outside of these 1500lb 5 x 6ft dia bales. They are about 13% protein. It is "neat" for reasons and I think it pays off. My goal is to produce as many pounds of high quality, "natural", birth-to-plate freezer beef PER ACRE as I can. Wrapping my late winter hay like this saves $$ and keeps quality up. These wrapped bales on this end will be fed at and just after start of calving next March 25th thru April and to turn out about May 1. So I want good hay for nursing cows at a difficult time of year. Hope you folks in TX get some rain... Happy Thanksgiving to you. Jim [/QUOTE]
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