Question for horse people. As I posted below I now have some squaders.... horses on the farm. Will shredded corn stalks be safe for bedding??? I don't have any straw to use for bedding. I do have shredded corn stalks, round and small square bales. We bedded them yesterday with them and they don't seem to have any problems. They did not even try eating any of it either. When we used to have horses here we always had straw. I will have to plant some oats this spring for the grain and straw. There is an overhead bin for oats for the horses too.
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Aaron SEIA
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Should be just fine. The ultimate in my wifes opinion is pelleted corn cobs. Very easy to sift through and not that expensive in the long run. If you have ground corn stalks go ahead and use 'em.
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Tony in SD
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Tho only thing I would watch for is a lot of ears or kernels of corn left in the stakes. If there is alot of corn, they may eat the corn until they founder. And Im assuming that since it is baled it is dry. Dry is good. Dont ever let your horse eat silage, it will bind them up and could kill them if not treated by a vet.
Anonymous-0
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You'll be fine.... How are you keeping them and what their job????? That corn fodder and some decent hay along with a mineralblock is prolly all they need..... Ours love corn silage but you just have to limit it to a bucket at a feeding...... If you have accessto sawdust, even better...... Don't fall for the bleeding heart horse folks that say you have to have 10 inches of bedding and don't live on mac& cheese while the horses get grain....
Dave read the post below about loosing my man card. The horses are in 12 x 12 stalls and then will be out on pasture daily as weather permits. I have about a whole bunch of cattle so it will not be a hard ship feed a few horses. I am just not a horse fan but the Grand daughters are. So you know who got out voted. LOL
Allan in NE
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I use dirt.
Not particular 'bout what dirt 'neither. Whatever they're lying on at the time will suffice. :>)
Allan
Not particular 'bout what dirt 'neither. Whatever they're lying on at the time will suffice. :>)
Allan
Anonymous-0
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Put em up a leanto to get in in bad weather and let them stay out... They'll be happier... Or, if you can sacrifice your barn wall for a door, A little paddock outside of 12x12 or 12x24 then just enough bedding inside to soak up moisture.....
John Harmon
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When I was a small kid my saturday job at 25 cents an hour was cleaning the horse barn stalls.Dad ground corn cobs in the hammer mill and that was the bedding. Manure forked hard but not as hard as corn stalks I betcha.Stringy old corn stalks will make a preacher cuss. If you can run the stalks thru a chopper it would help.Dad had 5 head of Clydesdales and 1 mule plus a pony for us kids to fool with. He farmed with horses mostly until 1935 when he got a used Oliver/Hart Parr 70 to do the heavy work with.With the help of a stool at 8 years old I could harness any of our 4 legged gentle giants.I always was a big kid,still am,5"11"/218 Lb.so hard work never phased me too much,still doesn"t.Any ways,I would consider useing some thing else for Horse Bedding in a stall than Corn stalks. Visit a Commercial Livery and check out what they use.That may give you some idea the direction to go for your own barn.
I am thinking about just having the tub grinder guy grind some of the corn stalk bales the next time he is here grinding hay for the cattle. That way there would not be any long stalks left. Plus any corn ears missed would be ground too. I have an extra bay in the commodity shed right now anyway. The grand daughters could haul them in the back of the Gator to refill the stalls.
I also just found a John Deere "R" manure spreader over at my Great Uncles that has never been out side over night. It is the smallest they made. I bet it does not even hold fifty bushels. It is only eight feet long including the tongue. My son just greased it up and it pulls fine behind the Gator. My Great Uncle is 98 and never was married. He told the girls they had to bring him home made cookies to "pay" for their new manure spreader. He used horses until about ten years ago. I bet he will be over here giving pointers to them. LOL
I also just found a John Deere "R" manure spreader over at my Great Uncles that has never been out side over night. It is the smallest they made. I bet it does not even hold fifty bushels. It is only eight feet long including the tongue. My son just greased it up and it pulls fine behind the Gator. My Great Uncle is 98 and never was married. He told the girls they had to bring him home made cookies to "pay" for their new manure spreader. He used horses until about ten years ago. I bet he will be over here giving pointers to them. LOL
The JD Model R spreader was a 95 bu. spreader and it was not the smallest spreader they made, there was a model L spreader that was smaller than the R and looked about like it but was a 75-80 bu spreader. You had to go back to the horse drawn model E spreader to get the smallest at 60 bu. Then there was a model H or HH spreader that was the horse drawn version of the H but it is still in about the 75 bu size. And the Model R spreader was the largest ground drive spreader J D made. If you were a John Deere seller you should know better.
Leroy I have sold John Deere equipment for over forty years. I have only sold maybe one or two manure spreaders. So excuse me for not having a encyclopedic knowledge of John Deere equipment that was made fifty or sixty years ago.
My Great Uncle's Spreader is a model R but it sure does not look to be a 95 bushel spreader. I have not measured it and figured the bushels but it really does not make a difference. It will work for what we need it to do.
My Great Uncle's Spreader is a model R but it sure does not look to be a 95 bushel spreader. I have not measured it and figured the bushels but it really does not make a difference. It will work for what we need it to do.
Tx Jim
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IIRC a model "R" is longer than 8 ft including the tongue and I agree it's a 95 bushel. A few years back I owned a JD model "K" horse drawn spreader. It still had the pan seat but it had rubber tires.
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