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Hay rack Hay rack in an animal enclosure Hay rack in the forest. A hay rack is a light wooden or metal structure for feeding animals. It may be used to feed domestic livestock such as cattle, [1] horses, [2] and goats, [3] or it may placed in the woods to feed deer. Feeding deer is mostly done in the winter, when the other food sources (green ...
A "butt" can be the amount of hay on a fully loaded rack, but the term also refers to the amount of hay that can be stacked by the beaverslide without moving it, roughly 24 tons of hay. [20] The hay at the top of each haystack is stomped and piled higher towards the middle to allow rain to run off. [ 12 ]
Hay rakes were among the first agricultural tools to become popular in the shift from human manual labor to animal labor in the 19th century. [ 1 ] The typical early horse-drawn hay rake was a dump rake , a wide two-wheeled implement with curved steel or iron teeth usually operated from a seat mounted over the rake with a lever-operated lifting ...
As of 1993, Kaytee had 365 employees and annual sales of about $70 million. [3] At that time, it also held about 1300 exotic bird species in an aviary in Chilton. [3] Engler sold the company to Central Garden & Pet in 1997. [4] They renamed the company Central Avian & Small Animal and continued to market products under the Kaytee brand. [4]
Some haylofts have slots or holes (sometimes with hatches), each above a hay-rack or manger in the animal housing below. The hay could easily be dropped through the holes to feed the animals. Another method of using a hayloft is to create small bundles of hay (1–4 cubic feet), then hoist them up using a block and tackle—in this case a hay ...
A baler or hay baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store. Often, bales are configured to dry and preserve some intrinsic (e.g. the nutritional) value of the plants bundled.
A manger or trough is a rack for fodder, or a structure or feeder used to hold food for animals. The word comes from the Old French mangier (meaning "to eat"), from Latin mandere (meaning "to chew"). [1] Mangers are mostly used in livestock raising [2] and generally found at stables and farmhouses.
Forage harvesters can be implements attached to a tractor, [4] or they can be self-propelled units. In either configuration, they comprise a drum (cutterhead) or a flywheel [5] with a number of knives fixed to it that chops and blows the silage out of a chute of the harvester into a wagon that is either connected to the harvester or to another vehicle driving alongside.