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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1025900" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>I can't get the numbers to jive on buying the more expensive hay. based on 25 cows if you buy $50 hay and put out a bale of hay a day for two weeks that is $700. if you buy the $25 hay and put out a bale of hay a day for two weeks that is three hundred and fifty dollars. buy a tub of feed in a drum that will last almost 3 weeks but we will call it two weeks for $100. your total comes to four hundred and fifty dollars for 2 weeks on the cheaper hay and tub.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>If you can cut hay or buy small amounts close than yes. Its easy to feed hay. When you have to trailer 6, 8, 10 bales per property... to multiple properties... with a $50K diesel truck, $5-10K trailer, load it with a $50K tractor, run $4 diesel in all of it, AND pay to maintain it all it gets expensive.</p><p></p><p>I can load a lot of tubs on a junky old $1K low boy behind a beat up $3K Z-71 truck and cover lots of country. They will slide a ton of 20% cubes on that trailer also and it rides just as easy. A $400 hay buggy moves one bale great and for $2-3K a good two or three bale dolly is fine behing the old Z. I don't have the numbers handy but my hay consuption was cut almost in half by just keeping tubs out. Im averaging a little over 1 bale per head per year. In the worst of drought it was like 1.6 and I have had years with decent rain where it was less than 1.</p><p></p><p>It won't work for every one but its an option to keep in mind. It goes back to... every operation is different... its not a one size fits all deal.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1025900, member: 6291"] I can't get the numbers to jive on buying the more expensive hay. based on 25 cows if you buy $50 hay and put out a bale of hay a day for two weeks that is $700. if you buy the $25 hay and put out a bale of hay a day for two weeks that is three hundred and fifty dollars. buy a tub of feed in a drum that will last almost 3 weeks but we will call it two weeks for $100. your total comes to four hundred and fifty dollars for 2 weeks on the cheaper hay and tub.[/quote] If you can cut hay or buy small amounts close than yes. Its easy to feed hay. When you have to trailer 6, 8, 10 bales per property... to multiple properties... with a $50K diesel truck, $5-10K trailer, load it with a $50K tractor, run $4 diesel in all of it, AND pay to maintain it all it gets expensive. I can load a lot of tubs on a junky old $1K low boy behind a beat up $3K Z-71 truck and cover lots of country. They will slide a ton of 20% cubes on that trailer also and it rides just as easy. A $400 hay buggy moves one bale great and for $2-3K a good two or three bale dolly is fine behing the old Z. I don't have the numbers handy but my hay consuption was cut almost in half by just keeping tubs out. Im averaging a little over 1 bale per head per year. In the worst of drought it was like 1.6 and I have had years with decent rain where it was less than 1. It won't work for every one but its an option to keep in mind. It goes back to... every operation is different... its not a one size fits all deal. [/QUOTE]
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