I had to read a semi-riot act to DS#1 who is mixing feed for the beasts while the SU convalesces from his surgery. He mixed up enough for at least 4 days. Now, if it is about 10 below zero you can get by with that. It is in the 30's-40's...........he is mixing rye silage and corn silage. Once it gets taken out of the silo bag and exposed to air, it starts to heat. After 4 days, it is not looking OR smelling good. He said "You wanna start mixing feed?" I said "no, I do not, and you KNOW you can't do that much ahead when it isn't really cold out. It turns to crap". Luckily I didn't have but about 3 good shovelfuls to pitch out tonight. There was some left in the mixer last night, he said about 400 pounds (sposed to feed about 1200 or so). I could tell when that came out of the mixer as it was first out. Yuck. Hope it got mixed up enough that they won't figure it out and will eat most of it till tomorrow night. Kids..............just because he is 42 doesn't mean he DOES know it all............
Had some snow last night and till mid-day today. It's not really all that cold out and some has melted already, leaving us with mud. Looks like they're saying mid-40's for the weekend. I will take that. Also uses lots less LP in the g'house!
