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NW Iowa | Thanks Jim and Happy Holidays! Can you still feed with a feed wagon with the setup of ply wood and panels? I've had a friend put in short round steel posts along the feed wagon side just a few inches above the bunk and put a hot wire up but they have the cables. Mostly everyone has gone to the pipe around here and they don't sneek through cause nothing gives to be able to get legs and necks through. I delivered a bunch of calves from the sale barn for a neighbor of mine last week that averaged 255 lbs and he has a 2 pipe setup with the bottom pipe the same height as mine. Calves never reach our feedlots under 550 lbs. This yard of mine is mainly set up for cows about to calve January-April. About 35 head at a time rotation as they calve, then they move to single pens with their calves for 1-3 days, and new momma's come in to take their place. But this year its an over flow yard for extra calves untill i'm ready to calve in 2 weeks. Hope the weather shapes up by then! | |
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