I unroll too. Have for many years! That way, the Alpha cows don't block the rest from eating. There may be a little waste, but everywhere I unroll hay the grass comes back greener! And, in the cold winter, it's comforting to see baby calves plop down in the warm hay for a nice bed. ;) I don't have an device like yours, I just take the binder twine or net wrap off, and then roll the bale out with the front tire on my tractor. Takes a little practice, but it works. If the bales are baled screwy, then I can just pick it up on my bale spear on the front of my tractor and shake/scatter it that way. Good video. :)

@MagaRickn

3 ай бұрын

Hint. Next time, tie that new wrap to the trailer! ;)

At Kedesh Farm, we unroll, bale graze, and sometimes use a bale ring. It mostly depends on the time availability. We mostly prefer unrolling because we are building the soil on our new farm. Thanks for posting.

@BrookhavenFarmsocial

7 ай бұрын

Doing it right is usually the hardest way possible but the results are great

I unroll a lot of the time. Yet when I am not going to be able to feed for say 3-4 days I us an Apache feeder wagon ( rectangular feeder on wheels) with clean hay very little waste.

We do an elevated bale basket.

@BrookhavenFarmsocial

7 ай бұрын

Do you find you get less mud in the winter? Do you move it regularly?

@KitfoxGrin

7 ай бұрын

@@BrookhavenFarmsocial not running cattlr currently, just horses and sheep, but cattle caused a terrible muddy mess. One of our baskets is under a roof with a concrete pad beneath it.

@BrookhavenFarmsocial

7 ай бұрын

@KitfoxGrin without a doubt, moving the hove pressure over the whole farm has transformed the fields without destroying them. It’s truly amazing how much we can feed with zero mud.

I was born in 69. My dad was born in 44. He fed cattle his whole life. We milked 40 head of holstiens all through the 70s and 80s. IN the mid 90s dad got into beef cattle. We always used bale rings. We tried unrolling on the ground, but the first thing the cattle do is walk on it, pee on it, and poop on it. In the bale rings, they eat nearly every blade. I dont care about the mud that forms around it. WHen a bale is all gone, we move the ring. We are in Michigan. WHen they are on pasture during the summer, we dont feed hay. WHen the pasture dies in late september, we start feeding hay in the rings. Hay is too expensive to be used to "build soil".