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Light crop of silage, chop or not?

  • 22-09-2013 12:27pm
    #1
    pakalasa
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    I have a light crop of silage cut this morning. Contractor was saying maybe better not to chop it as bales would sag and all that. What do you think? Less bales and less cost, I know.:rolleyes:


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  • #2
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    pakalasa wrote: »
    I have a light crop of silage cut this morning. Contractor was saying maybe better not to chop it as bales would sag and all that. What do you think? Less bales and less cost, I know.:rolleyes:
    dont chop, we had that snag with our last crop. looks like the stacked bales fell from the sky


  • #3
    himwdah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭himwdah


    i always chop, depends how u handle them for feeding i suppose, as long as i get the net off its ok for me as we only feed in a passage, if with bale slice then not chopped might be better. i hate to see long stuff being pulled in and trampled and wasted.


  • #4
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    pakalasa wrote: »
    I have a light crop of silage cut this morning. Contractor was saying maybe better not to chop it as bales would sag and all that. What do you think? Less bales and less cost, I know.:rolleyes:

    wouldn't bother if it was short.


  • #5
    yellow50HX
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    How dry is it? We always chop it easier to pike chopped silage.


  • #6
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    yellow50HX wrote: »
    How dry is it? We always chop it easier to pike chopped silage.
    you mean fork :D:D


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  • #7
    yellow50HX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭yellow50HX


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    you mean fork :D:D

    Nope pike.

    Forks are for eating the dinner at the kitchen table, grapes are for making wine. :D:D


  • #8
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    pakalasa wrote: »
    I have a light crop of silage cut this morning. Contractor was saying maybe better not to chop it as bales would sag and all that. What do you think? Less bales and less cost, I know.:rolleyes:

    Not to be smart could you graze it?


  • #9
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    yellow50HX wrote: »
    Nope pike.

    Forks are for eating the dinner at the kitchen table, grapes are for making wine. :D:D

    Around here a pike is one of these

    northern_pike_4.jpeg


  • #10
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    delaval wrote: »
    Not to be smart could you graze it?
    Bit late now. I need it for the winter.


  • #11
    maidhc
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    Chop it. No reason not to. Make the bales hard enough and they won't sag.


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  • #12
    lefthooker
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    yellow50HX wrote: »
    Nope pike.

    Forks are for eating the dinner at the kitchen table, grapes are for making wine. :D:D

    Sprong is the word you are looking for.

    A pike is what us Wexford boys used to put manners on them Red Coats and those gurriers from North Cork;)


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