coachg
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Moved the hay ring yesterday and the horn cows calf climbed up in the middle and made herself comfortable.
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She knows nobody would be game to mess with her mama.
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coachg
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In the next 10 minutes I think there were 3-4 more that joined her . I’d rather lose a little hay and have a good safe place for them to bed up while their mothers are eating at the hay rings !
Thats one of the major advantages of rolling out hay. The babies are less likely to get stepped on.
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coachg
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I unroll sometimes. Don’t like to unroll my outside stored hay but my barn stored hay . Matter of fact unrolled one today .
kenny thomas
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Why not unroll outside stored hay?
Dave
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I don't unroll hay because I don't feed round bales. But I do flake it off. I shoot for a flake every 15/20 feet. The little monsters do like to lay on it. The cows just eat around them and eventually pull out what is under them.
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coachg
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Just me I guess Kenny , I think there’s that bottom layer that got wet and has some rot to it and a little bad on the top. What’s in the barn is good top to bottom and has lots of grass seed in it .
kenny thomas
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Except for the little on the bottom and little on top it's the same hay. Unroll it and whatever they might not eat is fertilizer.
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coachg
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Makes sense , I just prefer my hay rings .
RDFF
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Everybody does what they do... but I'd never mess with rings, after having "graduated" to unrolling. Do you have an "unroller" coach, or are you stuck unrolling by flipping/pushing them forward?
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I always used rings... but I think unrolling is probably better for a few reasons.
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coachg
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Take my front fork and unroll or do it by hand
RDFF
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That's what I figured. That's an entirely different scenario... I did that with maybe a dozen bales or so, and gave up unrolling that way, choosing to bale graze, because of the difficulty to unroll, till I got myself into an unroller. If you had a decent functional unroller that just "let you drive", you'd just never do rings again, IMO, OR bale grazing either. The Hustler units are good... but kinda pricey. Being in Alabama, something along the lines of a Greg Judy unroller can work well, and is pretty low cost. (If you're not familiar, just google "Greg Judy bale unroller"). A 3 pt. unroller works good and is around $1500. But you do you... and I'll respect your right to...
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coachg
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Yall got me to unroll another bale ( from the barn ) today and put another bale in an empty ring . Guess which one they went after ?
kenny thomas
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It should be the unrolled bale but wouldn't surprise me if it was the outside roll. Next time unroll one of each and see how it compares.
RDFF
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I don't really care "which one they went after"... cows will do what they will do. But if you spread it out by unrolling, you'll be doing alot more good for your pastures on a broad scale, and you won't end up with "too much of a good thing" in one spot. You also won't have to be dealing with bale rings, or spreading manure. And if you store the bales outdoors right, you won't have much spoilage at all, and you'll end up with all that additional shed space to use for other things. Right now, that shed space is an overhead cost that you have to apply to the cost of your hay.
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coachg
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That’s how I store my outside hay right after I fill up the barn with plenty of room for 2 tractors and the baler . All under the leans . I feed my bales in the rings on ground the previous owner had let grow up with junk trees and shrubs in one pasture. The other pasture I feed on virtually a flat rock covering about a half acre . It’s amazing the grass that will come up and one of the cow’s favorite places to graze . Fires up in real dry weather of course . But I’m building up some soil there .
Its been so muddy here that unrolling would be 70 percent waste. I fed in rings til mud got too bad. Ive moved them to high ground and am setting out bales without rings.
I much much much prefer enrolling but cant do it on muddy ground.
Thr lack of a mudhole left after they est a bale without a ring is worth a tad bit extra waste in my book. Tm
I much much much prefer enrolling but cant do it on muddy ground.
Thr lack of a mudhole left after they est a bale without a ring is worth a tad bit extra waste in my book. Tm
