We start out with a great big bale.
We pull off forks full of hay until we have an itty bitty bale.
The itty bitty bale is taken inside.
Everybody eats.
All is well.
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A whole round bale in one feeding? Lots of work!
ReplyDeleteDo you wish you had smaller bales?
ReplyDeleteThey look like contented cows to me, even if the hay handlers aren't so much.
ReplyDeleteLooks like work to me!
ReplyDeleteShirley, if we are all here it goes pretty quickly (if one of the workers doesn't play with the camera instead of getting on the fork and getting busy. lol
ReplyDeleteJB, kind of mixed on that. For me personally, if we are buying feed as we are, it is easier to feed out of the round bales, because it is easier, leverage-wise for me to carry a big fork full rather than carrying a square bale. However, if we have our own hay, in the mow, and can just drop it down, then it is easier to feed that.
Caroline, they are really something. they can have a pile of hay as high as their chin right there in front of them, yet they will snatch what you are carrying past them right off the fork. Feeding is like running the gauntlet!
Jeffro, yeah, I guess you are right. lol
I miss feeding! When I fed in the barn (calving barn) I used small bales. I don't envy dairy farmers.
ReplyDeleteYep! That does look familiar. Although we just have small bales.
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Great shots, Alan looked really enthused on that one shot.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great series of photos! That last picture makes me feel all cozy . .
ReplyDeleteMoos, normally we would feed chopped feed with a power feed cart, but we are out of feed and the cart is broken...
ReplyDeleteLinda, I don't really mind these much, although I do whine about going out to feed. lol
Lisa, the camera was reading really, really slowly because of the poor light, and that was a really heavy fork full of hay. lol
Cathy, thanks, standing at the end of the line watching them eat is good for my soul....even the sound of them eating...the hay rustling, their jaws grinding is good to hear when chores are done.