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Jedi night

09-12-2005 07:15:29




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Can I feed my cows bales with net wrap on or do I have to take the wrap off. My neighbor baled my hay with wrap instead of twine . It looks like alot of work dealing with the wrap so if I could feed with it on it would be nice.




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John A.

09-12-2005 20:38:03




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 Re: OT hay bales in reply to Jedi night, 09-12-2005 07:15:29  
Jedi, The Halflife of the nylon netwrap is only slightly shorter than Uranium 235. Duh....A Cow,goat horse does not have the capability to digest it.
Go to a Farm store or Home improvement store, Spend $20 bucks and buy a good pocket knife to cut the net wrap off with. OBTW....That knife is useful in castrating those bull calvs too. They will bring $10/ hundred wt. too!! Steering, just one, bull calf will more than pay for that new pocket knife.
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John A.

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txgrn

09-12-2005 16:07:51




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 Re: OT hay bales in reply to Jedi night, 09-12-2005 07:15:29  
Well pilgrim, just ask yourself, what are the cows supposed to do with the net wrap, considering their digestive process????? ????? ??

Won't even sign it.



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Case Lady

09-12-2005 11:59:10




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 Re: OT hay bales in reply to Jedi night, 09-12-2005 07:15:29  
You better plan on getting a sharp pocket knife or you can take a flat piece of wood and tape a razor blade on the end and use that - or a busted ear tag cutter works well too. Leaving the net on tends to be easier, but you are taking a risk of the cattle actually swallowing some of the net and causing really bad problems in the digestive tract, not to mention the chance of strangulation. If you can set the bales on the end (flat part) when feeding them, you can find the tail end of the net and just unwrap the bale, doesn't take but just a few seconds to do that, but we put ours out with a spear in the truck, so can hold the bale a few inches of the ground and it is just as easy to cut the net and pull it off before setting the bale on the ground. You will find if you store your hay outside, that with the net on them, you will keep more of the bale intact and it will hold the quality much better than the bales tied with twine.

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Harley

09-12-2005 12:25:23




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 Re: OT hay bales in reply to Case Lady, 09-12-2005 11:59:10  
Not only the above, but try cleaning that mess up in the spring with nets all over the place. They get caught in every piece of equipment that gets near them. Harley



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KEH

09-12-2005 18:36:08




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 Re: OT hay bales in reply to Harley, 09-12-2005 12:25:23  
Listen to Harley. BIL just had to buy a new disc mower because of wrapping twine around the heads on his old one.

KEH



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