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Happy cows make you sad???

We usually do 5 cuts and there’s a few guys around us that do 6!

@@longxingplastic it’s their 2 in 1 plastic so it has the oxygen barrier built in to the black and white!

@@ralvis20 we like to leave it for a few months at minimum so it ferments before feeding it. We usually have everything we put up fed out in 1.5 years Grass not usually anything to worry about once it’s covered but we have had it with corn silage where we get No2 and you can’t go inside until it clears. Some people have had bunker fires where we are but it usually has to do with what they cover the plastic with. We use damp dry manure/compost so not very flammable but there’s some farms that use hay bales on top of the plastic and that’s pretty risky

@@bcdairybros that's awesome. Good to know!

Thanks! Honestly not sure I used an old iPhone 13 and just hit record on the time-lapse 😅

@@bcdairybros Wow! worked well

Yep! And that’s only about 15% of the feed we put up for our cows!

About 30-40 acres

​@@bcdairybroshow many cows you raise do you give this feed to?

@@pangkitampi5293 about 350 cows

Dirt? 😂😂

I have never seen anyone put a full layer of dirt on top! That's got to work really well for keeping the top compacted

It’s our dry manure from sawdust packs and such. Works well to weight it down and keep birds from putting holes in the plastic

Ya and u need a lot of bags to do as much as they did in that one bunk

@@thatdairyfarmer2847 that is true. But the quality of bagged feed is better-with near zero waste. If the waste in that pile is only 10%, that is the same as dumping every 10th truck in the landfill.

@@versasilagebaggers3492 we usually throw away less then 5% to rot/mold on the edges

@@bcdairybros you're doing better than most!

@@versasilagebaggers3492 sidewall plastic and you will have very little waste A bag does not pack as well and is terrible to feed out of.

Soil works the best for us. Never had luck with bags or tires too much rot

@@bcdairybros I understand that with the usual plastic films but you are using oxygen barrier so that won't happen. As long as you get the sealing around the edges tight and some weight on the cover you won't get rot.

@@bcdairybros We use sand but not as much. looks like a thick layer of soil, u get it off by shoveling? Also doesnt it start growing in the soil?

@@fllavour it’s out dry/sawdust manure and yeah we shovel it off by hand it’s not too much work and works well

35 mins from my house in goderich

Yeah it’s very good 👌🏼