Posted by kyplowboy on January 11, 2008 at 18:17:27 from (63.146.226.90):
In Reply to: hours on tractor posted by Big Hunter on January 11, 2008 at 04:19:42:
Don't know about a 100 acre chiken farm, every one I know that has chikens has 2 to 8 houses that are .25 acres each, have about 27,500 birds/house/flock, and fiqure on 5.5 flocks a year so 100 acres of chikens would be a whole lotta birds. Commercial chicken operations don't put as many hours on a tractor as you would think. Running a cruster, loading, reloading, and spreading litter does not take alot of time. Some of the loading and spreading is offen done by some one else other than the farmer.
Here is how much I have been using my tractors. Before this coming year I have had 3.5 acres of tobacco, 20-30 acres of hay, and 30 acres of pasture ground. Ford 6700 is used for cutting and baling hay, mowing pasture ground, spreading all the fertlize, moving hay summer and winter, turning, disking, cultimulching, and field cultivator work on tobacco ground and annual hay crops (millet and ryegrass or wheat, all the spraying of the tobacco ground, and anything else that gets done that the is too big for the 960. I put (from the meter) 225 to 250 hours a year on it. The ford 960 (yes some are still being used) runs the rake and tedder in hay, pulls the tobacco setter, plows tobacco, pulls the fencing trailor, sowing seed and I use it alot to jocky tobacco wagons with. I put 45-60 hours a year on it. This year I will be raising 20 acres of corn and 40 acres of beans. The 960 will not be used much on this but the 6700 will disk the 20 acres two times, spread fertilizer, and plant the 60 acres. Don't know how much time that is going to take up. I am hoping not much with a 14 foot disk and 6 row planter.
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