Feeding our Cattle

I sit here this morning eating my bowl of cheerios. It's my breakfast, cheerios and a nice big glass of milk! And you know the old saying, it's the most important meal of the day!

Well, this is no different for our cattle. When the weather is nice and and the grass is growing, they can "hypothetically" go to the cupboard and pour their own bowl of cheerios - there are enough forages available for them. But when the weather is winterish and the temperatures are cold, we need to feed them. This consists of the hay we put up during the summer, our 800lb round bales. Our hay is made up of timothy, garrison, and brome grasses.

Feeding our cattle has got significantly easier in my lifetime. I remember when I was young, we didn't have our round baler - we would put our hay up loose and store it in haycribs. To feed the cattle, we would fill a trailer with loose hay and my Dad would fork the hay off while my Mom drove the truck. It was a physically challenging job, one that only my Dad could do. Fast forward to 2003, we purchased our round baler and the tractor in the video with the "spinner" on the tail. Now anyone of us, Mom, Dad, or I can go out and feed the cattle!