What do you Feed With? Post Pics Please

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Nebraska Cowman

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• Feb 10, 2011

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I know some of you guys feed animals. Post a pic of
what you use to feed with, Tractor loader, bale
fork, pitchfork grain scoop, even a cat dish. Spring
is COMING.

Here is mine. This is Sweet Allis in his every day
clothes.

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Feb 10, 2011

• #1

my wife feeds her two goats every morning and night,they get hay and a dish of sweet feed for each one,I cut tree limbs and throw one in for them to browse on.

 

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KYfarm

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• Feb 10, 2011

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this is what it looks like in the spring and it is what I feed with all winter

 

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Allan in NE

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Once a day, every day. :>(

Allan

 

billonthefarm

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Location

Farmington IL

• Feb 10, 2011

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<img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh87/billonthefarm/inbox2/DSCN4432.jpg?t=1297341502".
This is how the bulk of our feeding is done. One load everyday for the cows, one load for fat cattle but we still have some small groups we feed with buckets.
Its -6F this morning here at Farmington IL.
bill

 

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IaGary

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Back when I had cows this was the haying rig. Cab sure was nice on zero degree days. For years I hayed without a cab. The cows were always kept about a mile from home for the winter.


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I would grind ear corn with this rig to dump in a feed wagon at the end of bunks to hand feed the weaned calves each morning.

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Sold the cattle last winter. Only miss them in the spring when the young calves were running around on a nice sunny day.

Gary

 

Fawteen

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Location

Downeast Maine

• Feb 10, 2011

• #1

Sorry, couldn't resist.

7 sheep. Scoop of grain twice a day, small square bale every other day or so...

 

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Bill(Wis)

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Is that Nebraska? I didn't know you had trees there. (;>))

 

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Dick L

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Ya beat me to it Fawteen. Zactly my thought when I read the title. Picture of a bucket and a coffee can.

 

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Chester5731

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Hey Fawteen, I use the same thing only mine does not look as nice.

 

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James Babcock

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Homemade sled from a mid-70's Chevy pickup pulled with a 230 Farmall. Usually I use my 84 Mazda pickup, but this snow is pretty slick here in the Ozarks today.

 

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old harv

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• Feb 10, 2011

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I feed with an 1980 Kubota M4500DT with a Laurin cab stuck on it. The cab has no heat, except in the summer. I used to use a JD 2130 with no cab, but then I got old. Still use the 2130 if I am feeding silage bales, because the Kubota doesn't have the power or weight to pick them up. I also use up to 12 5 gallon pails to feed grain. Gotta learn how to post pics. I used to feed cows, now feed about 350 sheep. Oh yeah it is -25 this morning, guess I will feed this afternoon when it is a little warmer.

 

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Rauville

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Why haul? Let em' come to the hay.

 

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DownSouth

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• Feb 10, 2011

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I usually feed like this, put the feed in a hanging bucket and attempt to hang it on the fence before they can get into it. Obviously that's not always possible as they think I don't hang the bucket fast enough!

Then of course you have your "Self Feeding" animals, at least for the first month or so of life!

But the improtant part is you must have a feeding supervisor at all times making sure your doing it correctly!

 

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ryanwheelock

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Like that last pic w/ the hat on!!!

 

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Kansas4010

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Don't know how to do the picture thing but an open station John Deere 2510. Just fed this morning with windchills -20 and yes it felt like it.

 

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Buckeye

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Deere 7210 with lots of mud from last year at this time. Can haul three round bales at a time.

 

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Erik Ks farmer

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Here's my feeding tractor loafing in the hay field last summer.

 

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jbp

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Grind and mix grain with a Gehl 95 mix mill pulled with a 5610 Ford. Feed weaned calves grain with 5 gallon buckets, and big rounds with a 6610 with 2400 Bush Hog loader.
This is my last winter to do that, as I sold my cows last month after nearly 50 years of wading mud and pulling calves. Its not much fun any longer. Joe

 

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Erik Ks farmer

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Here she is

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 10, 2011

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open station CASE DC or 730 gassers here in s .ind ,, by my calculations they run on about E-60 blend with e-85 ,.. been colder than normal , but stayed above zero so far . they are always ready in a moments notice , i keep the radiator covered to build quik engine heat ... i have 6 pens i set hay in for some 30 head , , keep cows penned in one spot ,then set out 8 bales in sheltered areas and close those pens off,, i open to those areas as they finish the hay in each pen ,,. it keeps me from starting the tractors every day , sometimes i can go 4 days without starting one and can wait for a warm day ..

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Hay hook and a 4 tine pitch fork. Bud

 

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hayray

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• Feb 10, 2011

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This is my haying rig and sometimes it is just moving the electric fence to allow access. Less fuel and labor that way.

 

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James Howell

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• Feb 10, 2011

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We use our Ford 2810.

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Very good dependable little tractor.

 

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jwmfarms

Member

• Feb 10, 2011

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That's a good looking rig you got there. What model is it?

 

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DoubleR

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Location

Mid Mi

• Feb 10, 2011

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Maybe someday I will figure out the picture thing. I use a JD400 grinder mixer on a MF231, five gallon buckets, and a hay fork.

 

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JDB

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Fork and spoon mostly.
Cats get fed with a scoop.

 

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ericlb

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• Feb 10, 2011

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usualy either one of these whichever is handier, also have a ford jubilee that i use on the trailer

 

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Pair-a-dice farm

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• Feb 10, 2011

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I don't have any pictures but I feed hay with a 826 Farmall and front end loader. Sometimes I use my 4630 ford and loader. I feed my replacement heifers mixed feed with a 2 ton grain-o-vator feed buggy and pull it with a D19 AC. Everything else gets fed with a 5 gallon bucket.

 

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KYfarm

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• Feb 10, 2011

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08 5465, love it

works along side my MF1105 and Ford 3600

 

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Erik Ks farmer

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• Feb 10, 2011

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hay ray, nice lookin 1105, what model loader is that you have on the ole girl?

 

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Tim Shaw

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Allis Chalmers 6080 and D/W Feeder

 

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NEKS

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Feed with the 450 at home. Use the JD45 loader to drop the bale rings over the bales. Them rings are starting to get heavy at my age. The rest I have to feed with the pickup seven mile away.

 

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hayray

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• Feb 11, 2011

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I think it is a 705 Leon loader. Thanks for the compliment, that tractor is a real work horse.

 

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Erik Ks farmer

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• Feb 11, 2011

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You bet! dont see many of the old 1100 series around here anymore. I farm with an 1105 and 1135 and they have been good machines. I was curious about the loader, I would like to put one on mine.

 

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Detmurds

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• Feb 11, 2011

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Mike (WA)

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• Feb 12, 2011

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Been on vacation for a week and a half, and no pics, but when I had cattle in the '80's, I took the beaters out of an old manure spreader, and used it to feed. Put small squares in the spreader, took the twines off, and pushed the hay out the back, a few sheafs at a time.