the feed bunk. Purchasing new feeders may not always be a practical way of controlling costs and keeping depreciation expenses low. However, the cost of hay waste alone can be substantial ...

Their feed bunks were never empty ... "If you are in Texas and you are paying $300 a ton for hay, a 20 percent savings in forage is huge," he commented. "That's a huge savings especially in ...

wind, birds, rodents, tires, tracked feed, cattle tossing feed, silage bunker losses, feed refusals, bunk heating and spoilage ... more than 9 percent, alfalfa hay of more than 7 percent and ...

Besides feeding bale hay, the chores involve feeding protein pellets and shell corn into steel feed bunks. They feed the hay bales in a succession of pens, about two weeks of time. When the calves ...

When Batey fills his feed bunks with the 70 percent sawdust ration ... In the late 1970s, when hay and pasture were scarce, Batey said he began experiments to duplicate that process.

Their feed bunks were never empty ... “If you are in Texas and you are paying $300 a ton for hay, a 20 percent savings in forage is huge,” he commented. “That’s a huge savings especially ...