Posted by billonthefarm on November 20, 2011 at 16:36:56 from (97.64.182.189):
We have been done with harvest well over a month now, yet, we still seem to be keeping busy. I sometimes wonder how this happens but I would hate to just sit around! Last thursday we finished bringing home the cows from summer pastures. They are all vacinatated and home for the winter and we will wean the calves in a week or so.
This morning we began feeding the cows. The 4430 on the bale processor in this pic. We run our hay and stalk through it and into piles in the bunker.
The 4230 back on mixer duty. All tuned up and ready to go for another winter. It is a rare sight for this tractor and mixer to be that clean.
This is the first loader bucket of silage. These three bag contain around 400 tons of corn silage.
This is the bunker we process bales into. Corn stalks on the left, gluten in the middle and hay on the right. We will mix those ingredients along with silage and mineral for a complete ration.
This is what it looks like in the mixer. The cows have plenty to eat yet as they are on cornstalks but we like to get the claves used to eating a little silage and hay before weaning so we feed them a partial ration for awhile.
These cows havent been fed out of the mixer since june yet when they saw the tractor and mixer in the driveway they knew what was up. Just like a pet cow that would follow you with a bucket of corn these girls will follow anywhere I went with the tractor.
Took this pic this afternoon. I often wonder if modern tractors will be as useful as these still are after 40 years.
Of course older tractors do break down sometimes. This is our 4630 recieving some "minor" repairs!
We installed the cattle waterer in the almost finished new feed lot yesterday. When we get it finished up I get some pics of the whole thing. Turned it on and it didnt even leak!
This is a morning ritual. Making feed for the cows takes about 30 minutes every morning and Wrigley likes to play catch with a frisbee while nick loads the mixer. He runs and jumps and brings it back and if you dont throw it again he gives you "this" look. Eventually he will get tired and bring it withing about 10 feet of you and lay down and just watch. Just living the dream! Hope everybody else is having as much fun as we are. Have a good turkey day. bill
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