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<blockquote data-quote="KMacGinley" data-source="post: 714666" data-attributes="member: 3175"><p>Thanks Doc: This will be the second year for the barn. The first year worked very well. The heifers and bull calves were in it until Feb 1st. I moved the heifers out to another barn and lot adjacent to the pasture where they ended up spending the summer. The Steers and the bull calves that I kept went to a different barn and lot. Both are on the way home from school for my 17 year old so he checked them every day. </p><p></p><p> The cows came off the corn stalks Feb 2nd. and into the barn they went. We hand fed them hay every day, with bred heifers and thinner cows on the east and the older better conditioned cows on the west. Since they were all under roof, we managed to capture all of their manure, enough to fertilize 20 acres of hay ground. always before they were out in the woods and we wasted this resource. We took out almost 3 feet of manure from the barn, but since we could raise the feeders it worked well. No starting up an engine and feeding silage for an hour and a half every night. Feeding was done in 20 minutes or less easily. </p><p></p><p> One change for this year is the purchase of a 4x4 round baler. I can cut the strings and unroll the bales by hand along the feeder. We can stack 200 round bales our size in there and still leave room to park our fleet of elderly tractors. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p> We fed the heifers and bull calves hay all winter with a homemade feeder wagon, blatantly copied from one of the H&S wagons and a purchased H&S. We fed 0 grain to the calves. The bulls and steers were finished on pasture. We built the homemade one in the shop using the frame from those trailers they haul modular homes on and some purchased steel for the racks. This has been a very good investment for us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KMacGinley, post: 714666, member: 3175"] Thanks Doc: This will be the second year for the barn. The first year worked very well. The heifers and bull calves were in it until Feb 1st. I moved the heifers out to another barn and lot adjacent to the pasture where they ended up spending the summer. The Steers and the bull calves that I kept went to a different barn and lot. Both are on the way home from school for my 17 year old so he checked them every day. The cows came off the corn stalks Feb 2nd. and into the barn they went. We hand fed them hay every day, with bred heifers and thinner cows on the east and the older better conditioned cows on the west. Since they were all under roof, we managed to capture all of their manure, enough to fertilize 20 acres of hay ground. always before they were out in the woods and we wasted this resource. We took out almost 3 feet of manure from the barn, but since we could raise the feeders it worked well. No starting up an engine and feeding silage for an hour and a half every night. Feeding was done in 20 minutes or less easily. One change for this year is the purchase of a 4x4 round baler. I can cut the strings and unroll the bales by hand along the feeder. We can stack 200 round bales our size in there and still leave room to park our fleet of elderly tractors. :) We fed the heifers and bull calves hay all winter with a homemade feeder wagon, blatantly copied from one of the H&S wagons and a purchased H&S. We fed 0 grain to the calves. The bulls and steers were finished on pasture. We built the homemade one in the shop using the frame from those trailers they haul modular homes on and some purchased steel for the racks. This has been a very good investment for us. [/QUOTE]
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