Days sure are short now

Bruce from Can. · Nov 24, 2016

Here it is night chore time again. Today just flew by,
fixed a window in the barn this morning, then the
boys and I brought 5 heifers home off of pasture
this afternoon. Pictures are the old stock truck in the
shed, young lad putting silage in the mixer, and a
shot of the silage where it drops into the feed cart
below

JD Seller · Nov 24, 2016

It looks like your entire livestock operation is under roof. Do you have pasture ground or do you keep everything in barns/lots??? I like the ability to feed and take care of chores under roof. Years ago when Grand Father milked the silos fed a mixer and then conveyor out to in front of the cows in the tie stall barn. Barn cleaner behind them. He would let the cows out for maybe an hour while he spread shredded straw under where they laid. He had his first TMR mixer in 1974.

We now feed outside in fence line bunks. You can feed a lot more feed faster but your in the weather all the time. Not much fun shoveling snow out of the bunks before feeding either.

Bruce from Can. · Nov 24, 2016

We can pasture 15-20 heifers in the 12 -20 month size. Still have around 20 outside , but they are being fed hay , and are on two different farms . All the cattle will be inside in a few weeks . The home barn has 105 tie stalls, and pens for about another 20. The bank barn on the other farm is almost ready for cattle after our renovations this fall, still have to get some wiring done .The barn we have renovated can handle about 60 head of young stock , all inside in pens with heated water bowls, and scrape alleys , with another 10 head able to run in the yard with a heated bowl in their shelter. So I guess we could keep around 180-200 head from baby calves to cows. There will be right around 80 cows to milk by December. While the young stock barn will be vented so much that it will be a cold barn , meaning that if it gets down to 0 F. , the water would freeze if you don't have heated bowls . The milk barn , while still vented ,never freezes with all of those mature cows. Makes for a lot of chores, but at least the temps are comfortable. Bruce

flying belgian · Nov 24, 2016

A little time and paint on the bumper of the jimmy and that would be one sharp looking truck. Not many of them left out there with a bumper that straight.

Philip d · Nov 24, 2016

The days are really short now,looks and sounds like a really nice operation

Days sure are short now

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