Anyone own a grain silo?

[Sparkyprep]

2 X 50 lb. bags a day = 14 bags a week = 56 bags a month. That is a lot of barrels, for a lot of bags, just for my small farm.

[Mad Trapper]

Do you have pasture or feed any hay?

My cousins cows started calving a couple weeks ago.

[Box of frogs]

2 X 50 lb. bags a day = 14 bags a week = 56 bags a month. That is a lot of barrels, for a lot of bags, just for my small farm.

How many cows are you keeping?
Just for my curiosity, I’m doing cow math on feed# per cow.

[Jester-ND]

we have hopper bottom bins, rats and mice don't really get into them, fans in the bottom keep things dry, not sure how it goes further south.

[Sparkyprep]

How many cows are you keeping?
Just for my curiosity, I’m doing cow math on feed# per cow.

5 cows. 10 acres of pasture. Round bale of hay always in the pasture in the wintertime. No hay in the summer.

[Inor]

5 cows. 10 acres of pasture. Round bale of hay always in the pasture in the wintertime. No hay in the summer.

Check with your feed mill. Our feed mill also sells feed in big canvas bags. I think they are about 2 tons each? (Don't quote me on that part). Most guys around here that buy them have a big flatbed trailer they keep just for feed. I'm sure those would be cheaper than 50# bags, certainly easier to deal with and probably easier than taking it out of a silo as well.

[Inor]

How many cows are you keeping?
Just for my curiosity, I’m doing cow math on feed# per cow.

We are doing 1 steer every other year. When we first get him, we go through about 1 bag every week or week and a half. The last couple months, he is going through 3-4 bags per week.

[StratBastard]

Not a problem with my two barn cats. They do a pretty good job.

[red442joe]

Jonesey!

Joe