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Rotten round bales

23-03-2013 11:25PM

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Gorteen

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What do you lads do with them? I've had a few this year and wonder what my options are!!!

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#2 23-03-2013 11:30PM

hallo dare

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how bads bad. I know we had to use molasses one year to get them to eat them. the bales wern't pure rotten,but they weren't the best

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#3 23-03-2013 11:45PM

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If you have a dung heap throw tHem on it. The dung will rot it down

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#4 24-03-2013 12:04AM

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How bad?? They were as black as your boot, covered in white fungus and I'm no expert, but they were f*cked!!!

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#5 24-03-2013 01:01AM

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Same.dung heap. But we would shake them apart or something as the rear spreader doesn't take to kindly to a big lump of silage.
We have a large bedded house with 40 calfs in and sometimes,not often we have them,but I would throw it up in the bedded half.they then play with it and lay on it or one sits on it like a king.

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