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<blockquote data-quote="jallen" data-source="post: 1311594" data-attributes="member: 20018"><p>Sorry, near Cullman AL. Hour north of Birmingham. My cows just begged for more when they got to the point it was time to start looking a little harder for it. I will admit that I noticed my hay was lasting longer per roll The biggest thing I liked was equal opprlortunity for all to eat and that reason alone makes it appealing. I just don't have a good way to unroll it without avoid alot of labor. I did quite a few rolls by myself moving 20 yards at a time on the tractor and using a pitch fork to tear the bale apart. I would walk it by hand and put in piles about 10 years apart. 6-8 piles in a group and move another 20 yards and repeat. From a time standpoint it just got frustrating to do alone. I believe a lot of my problem is my cows aren't trained to clean up yet. I'm going to get by this year but next I'm going to make an effort and start out unrolling and see if I can get them cleaning up better. They would just stand staring at my hay barn hollering wanting more when there was more to eat in the field. Granted the piles weren't visible just glancing around but once you got out there I could Rake up piles as big as a kitchen garbage bag would be if it were full. I could get 20-30 good piles raked up like that and back to eating they went.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jallen, post: 1311594, member: 20018"] Sorry, near Cullman AL. Hour north of Birmingham. My cows just begged for more when they got to the point it was time to start looking a little harder for it. I will admit that I noticed my hay was lasting longer per roll The biggest thing I liked was equal opprlortunity for all to eat and that reason alone makes it appealing. I just don't have a good way to unroll it without avoid alot of labor. I did quite a few rolls by myself moving 20 yards at a time on the tractor and using a pitch fork to tear the bale apart. I would walk it by hand and put in piles about 10 years apart. 6-8 piles in a group and move another 20 yards and repeat. From a time standpoint it just got frustrating to do alone. I believe a lot of my problem is my cows aren't trained to clean up yet. I'm going to get by this year but next I'm going to make an effort and start out unrolling and see if I can get them cleaning up better. They would just stand staring at my hay barn hollering wanting more when there was more to eat in the field. Granted the piles weren't visible just glancing around but once you got out there I could Rake up piles as big as a kitchen garbage bag would be if it were full. I could get 20-30 good piles raked up like that and back to eating they went. [/QUOTE]
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