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Orrrrr you have a tractor. You get a bailer and just cut hay off your farm!! Duh!
Wow that ad was annoying ….. bummer
Very kewl! I've never heard of tree hay!
When you pull hay off a field, however, much of it goes back into the soil. Nitrogen-fixing cover crops can help, as can bring in nutrients. A soil nutrient and excrement analysis would be really helpful.
I was looking into buying a mass spectrometer to do analysis for human food, such as eggs, meat, etc. Hmmm…
This certainly has me thinking. I need to put together an analysis program, testing protocols, etc. to justify the costs of the equipment.
I'm working on it. A good mass spec costs a lotta money. However, It's beenbon my radar for quite a while. I have some more research to do to put together a budget/business plan.
Be careful of castor beans that grow wild, as they can be very toxic and can kill cattle. I lived on a farm where they grew wild, and the owner lost a few to eating castor beans and/or the plants.
I'm with you on the medicinal plants, yet I have concerns about locus, and I'm aware that Ponderosa pines can cause spontaneous abortions in cattle.
If you have any book references of plant toxicity and farm animals, particularly cattle and chickens, please share!
I'm checking with USDA and University Extensions to get whatever info I can.
I have an interest not only in people's nutrition but livestock as well.
Very helpful and informative.
Thank you Mogan!
How much is hay where you are? Are you buying alfalfa hay or just grass hay?
Black locust smell great when they bloom but so invasive! They pop up everywhere if u have just 1 tree. And the seedlings are very thorny. Thinking about the dogs stepping on them. Yikes.
What's with the floating pixel? It's so annoying! Hahaha. ❤️ goldshaw
Never in my life have I heard of tree hay
Can hay trees planted and grow up in tropis country.should save tge money with alternative food for animal..thank you so much dear friend
Please clean your cameras. The last three videos have had a black spot in about the middle of the shot. This one it appears around the 12:43 mark. It is driving me a bit nuts. 😬 Love the videos though.
Skip to 10 minutes to find out all pertinent info and skip the filler material he puts in here
Belinda 100% knows her nake and turned her head to you when you said it !!
I know there is a debate or some controversy of 'grass-fed beef' vs 'grain-fed beef'. But I have never heard of supplying cattle with 'tree-hay'. Morgan even though you are adopting a lot of modern methods of farming your choice of livestock is the more traditional route. Cattle, water-fowl and chickens and this year adding pigs. I would still consider your farm as more of a 'Farm' than a 'homestead'. A lot of people that I watch especially the Oklahoma and Alabama crews have goats as livestock animals. Some have even added sheep. But goats love trees and leaves.
Wow! That book commercial was shameless and kinda bad!!! Please don’t start with all that!!! I love your videos and would hate to have to stop watching because of all the advertising snafu!!!! I feel like we already put up with enough and we are well aware of all the stuff you’re doing so if we want the book we’d order one! It’s not like you’ve talked about it since basically conception!
Sorry for my little rant! I love GoldShaw Farm and ALL it’s inhabitants!!
I cant wait to read the book with my son 🙂 sooo excited
Morgan there are a lot of people(especially the homesteading communities) who get local people who do the baling and cutting off their land. That maybe and option. Amish are pretty efficient at doing that. Daniel Arms with Arms Family Homestead , Gary Walker with Walker Farm Fam does it that way and Dusty Baker with Cross Timber Bison also. Dusty is Daniel Arms brother-in-law. Daniel actually sells a part of the hay that is baled from his property over to Dusty.
Hey Morgan, I love u man, but please, please get that black spot off your camera it's been there for the past i dont know 6 7 videos
you could combine tree hay making with making firewood by felling mature trees and trimming the branches off and setting those aside while you're making the firewood.
That's something you need to do anyway when you chop down trees.
So instead of adding cattle couldn’t you hay the extra pasture you have. Instead of adding cattle
Don't worry guys. Morgan will do it next year. He needs to hem and haw for a year.
Coppicing is when the tree is cut to near ground level. Pollarding is when the cutting is from above the trunk height. Whatever the cuttings are used for us a separate matter. Where the cut is made determines whether it is coppice or pollard.
You are ao right on the cattle and possible poisonous trees/plants. They know thay they can eat and what they cant for thr most part.
The way your black locus have sprouted I have to think they send out runner trees like our former sunburst locus did. 👍🏻🤞🏻
Counterpoint. You're all about not letting things go to waste and diversifying… everything.
Next time there's a storm that knocks branch off of trees, you could string the windfalls up in the barn, not as a main source of nutrition, but an occasional "treat." I'm sure the cows get sick of the same hay all winter long, and are bored stuck in the same place when they're used to the rotational grazing. A snack of something different might be a nice change of pace.
I kinda like your tree pun probably because of the lack of effect.
Never heard of tree hay! Just seems like a hell of a lot of trees needed to feed 10-12 cows! Watched a video about hay in drought times, a lot of hay sellers bale up hay containing a lot of sticks & whatever in the field, so just a tidbit to make sure your hay is all good grass! Love your passing knowledge, loved Molly’s lil commercial! 🤗❤️