Educate a townie!

[Grumpy]

Dorothy wants to know why farmers make horrid stinky silage instead of nice clean hay.

[Collie]

if its horrid and stinky its poorly made.


but the main reason for silage is because it doesnt lose nearly as much nutrient value as hay does.

and cooked just right the animals love it.

[ACME]

is molasses always added in?

[Grumpy]

My neighbours are doing silage as we speak. One harvester, seven tractor/trailer units.
Hope they make it right or they'll stink the place out.

[Collie]

Grass silage at this time of year - in bales??


or maize I assume, in a pit?


as long as they roll it well to squeeze out the air then cover it well and not let those possums in, there still will be a layer that goes off, and has to be discarded but it should be sweet.

is molasses always added in?

nope

[Grumpy]

not bales, big  high sided trailers. Townie can take a picture if you like, there's bound to be another one along in a minute.

Just glad I'm not rostered on night shift.

[Collie]

should have re read what you had written as I'd already forgotten - all of that  I know about and the size of the harvester these days - chomping 8 rows at a time   


I think you worry too much, must be maize and in a pit and when they open it they'll be slicing it off daily.  Our maize silage doesnt smell at all.

but yep, once they have got started the harvesting, generally they dont stop till its finished - can be a very very long day

[ACME]

and if the tyres go missing off your cars, I'd check the stack first 

[Grumpy]

Where do you think we got them from in the first place?

A bit suspicious though.....Only mitsi in town with John Deere rims.

[ACME]

 

[The Brain]

always prefered balage to silage, that was in the days when bales were small enough to lift. before round bales and super mega bales.

god i feel old now

[cylllyyy cylindra]

I have learnt something new. 

[xtc]

They very seldom sugar silage for two main reasons 1 cost/tonne 2 the raw sugars are better fed as a suppliment to the rumenant as the fresh sugars metabolise more efficantly than one in a silage which when oxidized in silage is a little alchol killing a few tummy bugs to give less effective result than feeding molassas as suppliment to silage tritacarli southland or a kale maize only grows under plastic down here

[Collie]

Always has to be cost efficient  and drunk stock, while funny is not a good way to keep them in optimum health... but then again....  hmmm   

save me googling... please explain tritacarli southland or a kale maize??

always prefered balage to silage, that was in the days when bales were small enough to lift. before round bales and super mega bales.

god i feel old now

we still have a few hundred little (old fashioned bales) so I can chuck them at my horses (and feed the kids)     Whats more I make sure its from a prickle free paddock too, there is nothing worse than grabing a slice of hay only to come away with 30 prickle needles in your hand.

Besides the kids just have to have a hay shed with little bales in which to build secret huts etc - wouldn't be right to live on a farm and not to have that experience.

[IceQueen]

ahhhh the memories 

haybale huts. great fun! 

[xtc]

Forgot about the huts mmmm...kale chow swedes fast growing barley anti snow foods to cold for maize in winter global warming or not .