Some random pics.

[gcreekrch]

Irrigation water is on, calving almost done, yearling heifers to grass, snow flurries today….

 

[jltrent]

Every time I see your pictures I see piles of hay. It takes a lot of hay for cattle, and you probably have to feed for several months. Do you truck it in or grow most?

 

[gcreekrch]

Every time I see your pictures I see piles of hay. It takes a lot of hay for cattle, and you probably have to feed for several months. Do you truck it in or grow most?

We grow about 3/4 of it, by turnout we will have fed 3300 tons of feed counting the screenings pellets. Our winter range was short last year so we had to start feeding nearly a month early. We feed an average of 160 days give or take 15.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

We feed an average of 160 days give or take 15.

I would have guessed you fed longer than that. This year the cows will have been on hay for 200ish days by the time they goto grass next week.

 

[gcreekrch]

I would have guessed you fed longer than that. This year the cows will have been on hay for 200ish days by the time they goto grass next week.

Turnout is May 25 to June 1. Atone time we turned out May 16 but it doesn’t pay to do that. Most years we start feeding sometime in last 2 weeks of December. Only one in 2002 did we graze to January 22.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Turnout is May 25 to June 1. Atone time we turned out May 16 but it doesn’t pay to do that. Most years we start feeding sometime in last 2 weeks of December. Only one in 2002 did we graze to January 22.

About the same as here then. I've grazed into Janurary a few times, but also had to start feeding in October other times. This year's 200 day feeding will be on the higher end for me.

 

[Silver]

Turnout is May 25 to June 1. Atone time we turned out May 16 but it doesn’t pay to do that. Most years we start feeding sometime in last 2 weeks of December. Only one in 2002 did we graze to January 22.

We turn out at about the same time as you. But I never have the grazing available to push them anywhere near as late in the fall as you. Some guys around here do though.

 

[jltrent]

 

[kenny thomas]

Thats scary

 

[jltrent]

 

[kenny thomas]

It will be illegal in Virginia July 1 because its belt fed. Let's buy one.

 

[wbvs58]

How come the belt doesn't move?

Ken

 

[gcreekrch]

How come the belt doesn't move?

Ken

Shells left over from old westerns and 100 round 6 shooters.

 

[jltrent]

How come the belt doesn't move?

Ken

I thought the 12v battery sitting below running it was cool. Maybe there is a belt of ammo inside what looks like a belt. If you look closely, I believe you can see the ammo at the box coming out. It maybe AI fed the way everything has gotten. It would take a lot to keep it fed.

 

[farmerjan]

Taking care of that many cattle must require a tremendous amount of time, energy, and dedication. I can only imagine how much work goes into managing them every day.

Same reply on 3 threads.....

 

[tater74]

I reported her last night. 5 or 6 just the same.
Almost had to be a spammer.

 

[greybeard]

How come the belt doesn't move?

Ken

What you see is not a belt. It's a carrier or sometimes called a conveyor. The linked belt of rounds travel from ammo storage inside the carrier up to the gun, enter a device that looks like a cylinder shaped electric motor (it is not). This is the de-linker that removes the links that hold the rounds together as a long belt. The delinker spits the empty rounds and individual links out the bottom, tho they usually go down a flex tube into a container instead of on to the ground like that video shows.