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It's people like this that give our industry a bad name. (Assuming this keeps going the way it's headed). And they are the reason outfits like the SPCA get teeth.
Agree 1000%.....It's people like this that give our industry a bad name. (Assuming this keeps going the way it's headed). And they are the reason outfits like the SPCA get teeth.
That brand new Powder River set up is somewhere in the $12,00 to $15,000 range.So glad that they are getting fed some and that there is hopefully not going to be a train wreck at least as far as the feed/hay situation is concerned. Calving still to be concerned about... but someone is at least taking come care of them.
What does a set up like the chute/squeeze and tub cost?
He has some of what is needed to build a working facility. But none of it is set up. And he will need to build a corral of some sort to capture the heifers in order to get them into the sweep tub.I'm glad to hear that they are doing ok so far, and he is coming by to check on them. That doesn't sound like many feeders for the number he is feeding, but I guess if they have some stockpile to eat as well they aren't all piling in at once, maybe. I bet it was really expensive, but I'm glad he has working facilities for when they are needed. Hopefully he will check in more regularly on them close to calving time.
When the man who doesn't live here (lives 100 miles away) told me he had 25 bred heifer coming all the way from Oklahoma on January 5. I asked about feed and he pointed to hay field which wasn't harvested last summer. We do get winter here Less than a week after they arrived it was -5 with a foot of snow. The only way from here to where he lives is the freeway. There are no alternate routes. And this time of the year the freeway often gets closed from the state line all the way to Pendlton (150+ miles). There was certainly the potential for a train wreck. The bad weather didn't last long this year. And he brought in hay after the weather hit.Doesn't sound much like a train wreck to me but more of a case of a nosey a$$ neighbor lol
To be honest, I would much prefer those days when neighbors were nosey. Things didn't go off the rails.Doesn't sound much like a train wreck to me but more of a case of a nosey a$$ neighbor lol
They can tank up on alfalfa then the protein should carry them 3-4 days eating old meadow grass. Kind of limit feeding, but over a longer time span and not as good as a few pounds of alfalfa every day and go hustle for the fill.Well he kicked the heifers out of the smaller area they were in to the irrigated field. They are just across the fence from me now. There is plenty to eat there. I would just question how nutritious it is.
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He also moved those round bale feeder and they look to be stacked full of those small squares of alfalfa. Given a choice I would thing the heifers would prefer green alfalfa hay to old over mature grass. If he was limit feeding the alfalfa he could make them fill up with the old grass. But limit feeding would require daily feeding.
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You can see where they are. The few who weren't at the feeder were at the river getting water or walking back from the river. I think some of his ideas have already been proven wrong. Oh well, education isn't cheap. And if it is just his money and not the animals well fare I don't care.
Read the first post about the new neighbor referring to the galloways as being foragers, and again to post #172, which was in answer to a post of yours.Dave have you actually spoken with the neighbor about your concerns on his heifers or do you just post pictures of his cattle/land and talk about how stupid he his on the forum?
Looks to me like they all have "black belts. I would be cautious stepping into the pasture with them."There aint a belt on any of em!
I automatically thought belted when u said galloway....