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Red Paint
Posted 3/23/2020 22:34 (#8133629 - in reply to #8133502)
Subject: RE: Winter Feed Stations


SW “Ohia”
MU1979,

In our fragipanic crawdad clay, if you can still drive a tractor through the pen, it’s not mud. Once mud hits the tractor stays on gravel or you aren’t getting it back.

Crushed rock heavy use pads aren’t that expensive to build. $10/ton for 304 stone and whatever your trucking cost is. Only other costs are fabric and diesel fuel for the skid steer. If you can fix the drainage you can avoid the muddy areas along the edges for the most part.

Growing up running cattle in the swamp I spent many days in waist-deep mud fishing straps around cows to lift them out of the hole they stuck themselves in. We’d have another tractor back on the gravel to pull the recovery tractor to dry land. Lots of chains and straps and cables hooked together. Dad lost cattle every year to mud. Drowning, getting stuck, rolling over in it, whatever. We cut the skirts off bale rings so calves could climb inside and have a high spot to get out of the water. I got disgusted with it and will never run cattle without proper feed pads and management to avoid this. It’s not any way for an animal to live or a producer to make a profit.


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