How Much Hay Do I Feed My Cows?
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2024
- Ever wonder how much hay will cows eat? In this video I try to give a detailed explanation on how much hay I feed my cows. We fought a lot of rain storms this last summer and so we had some hay that wasn’t put up in the best of conditions. So in this video I explain how I feed up bad hay to my cows.
Yep, always enjoying your videos 🍺❤️
Thanks so much for the massive effort in putting these together.
I find them very informative, and the photography/editing skills are becoming very refined.
Trust all is ok, and hoping the family and people close to you, are doing real well.
Looking forward to the next one.
Cheers 👍
Thanks for the encouragement! My family and new baby are all doing good! Hope you and your family are doing well also. We are looking at some colder temps this week so I’m trying to be ready for that. Take care!
I'm touching-45f this morning. Thanks for sharing some of your chores for the day 👍
That sounds brutal! We got lucky here it was supposed to get around -20 but the lowest I’ve seen is 2 above. Seems like alot of places East of the divide got pretty frigid.
Great video
Thank you!
Another great video, that's an excellent way to feed your beefers clean ground to eat off and scatters the manure out also making it easier to drag out in the spring. Probably a bit more work but you save in the end I believe. I remember a saying one old cattle dealer out this way use to say, sometimes you may lose a little on the popcorn but you can make it up on the peanuts. My brother and I would go with my dad around to different farms and pick up calves and cows to go to auction. I'll tell ya we did meet some characters, that was in the late fifties early sixties there were fifty seven working farms just in our town back then now there are six. That auction barn has long been shut also I believe there's one left in the middle of the state, anyway your cows look in good condition. I saw a clip of Elk migrating down to flat ground somewhere in Wyoming have u seen any coming around your area yet. That fence you put up should work good. Stay safe say hi to the family
That sounds about like here. Almost every family around here used to be a dairy and now there are none. Besides the few that are selling their milk directly to the public. I like feeding this way there is next to no waste and you can spread your manure around where you want it by feeding in that area. Good to hear from you
Good update! Great explanation of your winter feeding program! I like that you mix all the feed (good, bad and ?) for the best energy source! No waste! I wonder how much your winter feeding increases versus warm weather versus there body conditioning? Good effort and explanation with this video answers questions I had! Keep up the good work!!
Thanks! I’m glad this one was a little more informative. Seems like if it’s really cold I end up feeding 5-10 lbs extra per cow. I don’t really have an exact science for it but mostly guesstimate haha. If there’s hay left on the ground the next day when I feed I know I fed too much. Hope you are doing good. I imagine you guys have been wet this week. We’ve been hammered by storms all week and it seems like they usually come through you first.
Hi Bryan. We got cold. Single digits last night and next two also. I think we usually average mid 20s. Thankfully no snow but have had some rains in December. You’ll probably get few babies from your new cows as that front moved thru.
Enjoyed your video!
Thank you! How often do you guys get that cold? That could cause some havoc if you weren’t prepared for those temps. Of course the cows like to calve in a blizzard. I’ve had 3 new ones this week. It’s been a lot of work haha. Good to hear from you!
Good to feed them on a clean plate of snow. They sure vacuumed all that feed up.
They seem clean it up really well. It’s nice being able to spread the manure around also
Yes, sure beats loading it up on a spreader.@@LuthiRanchWY
It's deceptive watching your videos, you make it all look easy! Nice work, you are taking the starve out of Starve Alley
Haha well I’m glad I make it look easy on tape because sometimes it doesn’t feel that easy. Hope you guys are doing good! Just a little over a week before I take your beef in!
@@LuthiRanchWY you are the man
We had a Charolais show steer, could never break him. went to the butcher. That was the worst beef ever, hard, chewie even the burgers would bite back. Keep safe brother. We are getting a norther blast monday. Had to cut my grass hay, but i saved it will make some bales Monday during the dry freeze.
Even the hamburger would bite back 😂😂
Haha this is my first time dealing with a charalais steer and I haven’t enjoyed it. My dad has a couple charlais cows and they seem to be pretty calm and gentle.
You’re saving a lot of money on electricity not having to keep water open. My meter is spinning now in this cold weather
Those water heaters do start to add up. I’d be curious to see how much we spend on power having our equipment plugged in so it will start on the cold days.
I can bring my barbecue 😃😃
Nice job 👍
Thank you! Take that steer off my hands haha
Enjoyed the video! Thanks
Your welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Your new feeding system seems to be working out pretty well. They get plenty and less daily work for you. Way to be an athlete getting on that stack. Where do you butcher your beef?
Haha I didn’t think I looked very athletic trying to climb those bales. This way of feeding has worked out pretty good for me so far. I take our beef to The Block in Thayne.
@@LuthiRanchWY Those guys do pretty good work. I like their smokey sticks.
Exactly no waste. Some farmers tell me im wasting feed rolling it out.💩💩. Even the horses waste feed also💩
Only time there is waste if the feed is poor quality and mold dusty etc.
Then there is feed sitting around. U can't plame them for not eating that scrap.
You definitely waste more feed using feeders. I like feeding this way because 1. No waste 2. Being able to have the cows spread their manure around for you 3. Everyone has room to eat and prevents competition and pushing.
How much hay do u feed per elk 🤪 , just messing. Hopefully u r down to 0 , with the fence this year. Stay safe . Todd
Haha haven’t had to feed them yet this year. We’ve been getting a lot of new snow though this week so that might get them moving around and showing up a bit closer. They took enough from us last year.
crap looks cold there. what state you in
Western Wyoming. Where are you from in Canada? I assume you are from Canada because of you name haha
oh nice looks beautiful there...i love that way of life you are living...im from southern Ontario..@@LuthiRanchWY
You just be careful you dont stand on the folded tarp and get back down the really fast way. The hay feeding looks like it is top notch in my opinion. Wait until your son starts new mathematics, your hay feeding video will be a hour long.
Haha I’ll do my best at least the snow would hopefully cushion my fall!
Just curious why you silage bales are so light?? Up here most silage bales are weighing in at roughly 2000lbs and my dry feed round hay is 1600
I think he had mentioned that was an estimate on a dry matter basis excluding the water.
Yes what whiteface said. I would say our Silage bales weigh close to what yours do, that 1800-2000 lbs range. I just estimate that we bale then up at a 40-50% moisture content so I figure almost half of that weight is water. So that’s where I come up with the 1000 lbs of dry matter weight. It’s all just a guesstimate though haha. What size are you round bales? I would say are dry round ones are 5’ by 5’ and weigh around 1200 lbs maybe a bit more
@LuthiRanchWY my bales are 5 wide and 70inch high...and solid as a rock lol
great vidios ....was just wonder if the alfalfa you feeding your cattle are not causing bloating.. .or do you mix it with hey..
We usually have a bit of grass mixed with our alfalfa. We don’t usually worry too much about bloating unless we are feeding 2nd crop alfalfa. We only get 2 crops up here and the 2nd is usually smaller than the 1st. Feeding on the ground also helps since a lot of the leaves will sift down into the snow. We’d worry more about it if we were feeding in feeders too since all the leave would be contained.
nice channel!
Thank you! Just checked out your channel and watched a couple of your videos, subscribed! Looks like you’ve already got a pretty good following. Where in Northern Wyoming are you guys?
@@LuthiRanchWY thanks! Sheridan area… your in star valley area?
Yes, we are in the Star Valley area. Freedom to be exact if you are familiar with Star Valley
@@LuthiRanchWY never been over there, looks like beautiful country… been a fan of freedom arms for a long time!
Yes, seems like a lot of people know about the gun factory. Funny because Freedom is such a small town, about 200 people. The factory is just about 2-3 miles up the road from us.
No elk yet that's good your cows look like they are in real good shape fat n sassy
No elk luckily. They are starting to move around though with these recent storms. Our neighbor that plows the county roads has been seeing them the last couple of nights
@LuthiRanchWY hope all the high fence keeps them have problems with wild hogs so panel have smaller openings to even keep the little ones out we feed wheat hay n they like it n turkeys will get on top n scratch for seed stay warm
So do you guys have problems with the turkeys also or are they just more of a nuisance?