Re: O/T Straw Bedding

Posted by The Dukester on December 07, 2006 at 20:27:23 from (4.229.234.98):

In Reply to: Re: O/T Straw Bedding posted by El Toro on December 06, 2006 at 05:42:46:

On the farm where I was raised we had a corn husker/shredder for many years...and a threshing machine too. We put up our hay loose too using a flatrack wagon, a hayloader, the forkset in the barn and pitchforks to handle the hay. We always had plenty of bedding material with the corn fodder and loose straw. Our main barn had 5 mows and we usually used 3 of them for loose hay, 1 for straw and 1 for corn fodder. And we often had a strawstack and/or a fodderpile out in the barnyard too. During the winter months we fed the cows hay during the day and corn fodder at night along with their ground dairy ration and silage/haylage every morning and evening. In the morning we shoved the uneaten fodder through the stanchions after letting the cows out in the barnyard and used it to supplement what straw hadn't been pushed into the gutters for daytime bedding. We rebedded with fresh straw every late afternoon after cleaning the gutters before the other chores and milking started. When we went to using a cornpicker and the combine we went to baling all our hay and straw and disked and plowed under most all the cornstalks. We usually filled a couple of upright silos too with corn silage and later haylage too.. We always covered most of the fields we were going to put to corn with manure...needless to say we usually had lots of that....and lots of work getting it all hauled to the fields.
There was a lot of work in those days modern grain farmers will never know about.

Replies:

• Re: O/T Straw Bedding El Toro 06:37:49 12/08/06 (0)
• Re: O/T Straw Bedding El Toro 04:12:38 12/08/06 (0)

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