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I hope so. Calves are big and so are the market reports.

@@potholeproud4598 been watching the sales. Pretty wild. Was gonna buy some heifers to feed with our calves but I’m starting to chicken out. 🤣👍

Let me know what you find. My bro in law brought the same bike back to me for a no start condition. Haven’t had chance to look at it. Hopefully not same thing

@@potholeproud4598 For us it was a really dirsty sparkplug lol, It barley apraked. Also the idle was wayyy too high

I’m a pretty rookie bear hunter,last one I took was 20+ years ago. This guy was putting fat back on.

@@potholeproud4598 we used to hunt a lot of bears when I was younger. Got a nice blonde bear for a wall mount. Lots of cinnamon and brown bears along with black bears up here.

Yes. Ones longing for some sun to shine

Correct

Giving the other cow a tag number for identification so she can be matched with her baby in the future

Not to sure what you mean by lock up.

Absolutely. The saved hay is proabbly gonna be needed when we should be turning out

Thanks for the reply. I have found all those similar things you mentioned. I had contemplated grinding all those bars off that roller. Looks like I should avoid that. I will have to check the bushings on my duckbill arm closer. I think I’m around 14,500 bales

Thanks for your video. Yours was much clearer. Really the main reason I made it was to get more info out there for people it took along time for me to come across your video. I watched it 5-6 times to make sure i I was troubleshooting this one correct.

Thank you.

Swath grazing. A few people do it around here? We have never done it. Do you feel it out weighs baling and feeding? Or is it that swaths don’t get dry enough to bale?

@@potholeproud4598 I like it for a couple reasons. First off the waste is left on the field where the next crop goes. The biggest reason is the calves have equal opportunity at the feed with the cows. Them old hogs will keep calves out of the better bales if I try feeding them in feeders. Plus my weight gains in that last month on the cow with either oat or barley swaths is unbelievable. I’ve never measured it, but I bet they are putting on well over 2 pds a day or more. They hit the ring looking all pudgy and growthy looking. Usually puts them in the top end for selling price for angus/simmental cross cattle. And my cows hit winter fat so I can get by on really poor quality hay like slough grass after weaning for quite awhile. Works for our operation. Figure I am well paid on the feed provided without the baling, hauling and feeding.

Makes sense. Thanks. We are sitting on a situation where we had some early snow, it blanketed all our 3rd cut standing alfalfa. So it won’t freeze yet to turn cows into. Have 150 acre of that 80acres of grass and 40 acres of greenfeed volunteer barley all in one field. Snow all went today. So hopefully next 5-6 nights we can get some freezing and toast this alfalfa.

@@potholeproud4598 first year I’ve grazed oat swaths, I usually use a silage barley like cowboy instead. I think they may clean up the barley straw a bit better just looking at it right now, but it’s been warm lately so it’s hard to gauge. I usually don’t start till now most years, but our pastures were running out mid October and I don’t like grazing to the roots. Just means maybe a little more waste, but this stuff was over 5 ft tall so they will waste a bit of that straw anyway. Crop was 7 bales an acre on the outer swaths. If I was to rake and bale the leftovers, I doubt it would be more than half to 3/4 a bale an acre right now. To me that acceptable feeding pairs. If it was just cows, I’d probably make them grind a little harder, but I want weight gains.

Thank you. We rolled the dice and sold early not knowing if the tone for the year on the market had been set. But due to feed shortage then factoring the cost to feed them another 3 weeks to our regular market date, well selling was the only way.

@@potholeproud4598 sometimes have to do what you have to do.. markets are strong and big shortage of cattle..

Thank you. We were quite happy with our weights. Always hoping to improve.

Thanks for reply. He’s pretty excited about this and you never have to remind him to do his chores

@@potholeproud4598 starts with chickens, pretty soon he’ll be feeding cows for you like my kids. One is in college and one is working 12 hour shifts, so I’m back to feeding my cows and a herd of goats and chickens for the kids. Lol

Thanks. We really like that Renown bloodline. In spite of epd’s saying he is a hard calver we have found the opposite. Boy do those calves grow. All of our breeders are great reputable guys and stand by their product. Water still flowing but can’t hardly believe that it is. I’m sure any day now they will stop.

@@potholeproud4598 yes there isn’t many hard calving bulls left these days. Good for you on going with common sense over the numbers.

Seating was pretty good at the rodeo. Had a good time

@@potholeproud4598 how’s pasture’s holding out down there? Some guys are running out fast up here between the drought and hoppers. Community pastures are kicking out pairs around here…. We are ok till September or so, but will probably be a month shy on graze. Make it up with some swath grazing I suspect.

Pastures getting down, but we should hopefully be not too far off our usual time we come out of ours. Irrigation will likely be off in 10-12 days in the main canal system. And rationing for a bit after.

When we planted we put on about 25# N (actual) with half bushel of barley. Now that it’s been in a year we put on a blend at 315# of product. Can’t remember the blend but I could find out The last grass bales we weighed were right at 1500#. With the Timothy in here not sure how much these will differ

Ha ya. There are days

@@potholeproud4598I had a green one. Way overhyped. Lol. It’s gone now.

I think so. For this model we have it’s had been unreal with the history that they are known for. Hope I didn’t jinx it

We run skids shoes in second pin from top. I have found that those bottom 2 holes on the skid show have no effect. The cutterbar hits the ground before they do. Sometimes we will pull the pin on the top cylinder so you can tip the cutter bar. But for us even rolled hay fields I’d rather leave some stubble and loose maybe one bale per field vs swallowing rocks, breaking discs and shearing hubs. We found out today though on some stuffed that was bent over but not fully flat, run pto down to around 900 rpm and dropping a gear or 2 you will gain a couple inches of cut on lodged

Other thing this machine does, is the outside edge of the header frame really pushes a line and flattens crop. I’ve done everything I can thing of to get it to try and clean up that ribbon. Tried new blades on each end. Tried cutting drifter widths to see if the tractor side of header will clean it up but no luck

Sure made cutting the rest of the day more enjoyable for sure.

That’s for sure. We are nice and green here but some rain is due. Dryland hay crops under extreme stress and maybe finished now.

Getting everything to go smoothly out that gate does prove to be a challenge some days. Get an old girl out front and usually goes well

Thanks. Great feeling to get them out to summer range.

It has improved for sure. Some guys aren’t so lucky. Another inch of snow last night

@@potholeproud4598 we’ve been getting to -10 at nights so it has slowed the melting quite a bit. We move them to a clean field as well as they calve so it’d be nice to have the snow go so the calves can spread out away from the straw pack.

Thank you very much. I wasnt too sure about them earlier on this winter, but now they are really coming around. Must have been going through that awkward teenager phase haha!!

I think about -22 that morning. Hit -34 a couple days. Hopefully those are long gone.

@@potholeproud4598 I hear ya. -28 with a breeze this morning.

Thank you. Where’s your home state?

@@potholeproud4598 We grew up in North Central Illinois in a small farm town, just 56 miles to the west was Quad cites of Rock Island, Moline, East Moline and Davenport Iowa.

Oh I’m sorry I can’t help you there with a job.

@@potholeproud4598 tenks

It is crazy. The dealer did what they could. They also told us when it comes to new atvs, they said they had 420s on order but Honda wouldn’t give them any delivery dates or even how many they would be allowed to have.

@@potholeproud4598 seems like can ams are coming in more regularly now, but all atv manufacturers have sure rode the struggle bus getting stuff in. Got a new tractor coming. They promised it by spring, I just hope it’s in by haying time. 🤷‍♂️

Thank you. This winter has been good for their condition as well as saving some hay.