Weird objects found in your feed

[Show Heifer]

Many years back, had our silo worked on. A few days later heard something metal hit the bunks.... turned out to be a wedding ring. The repairman was overjoyed to find out we had it. He had no idea where he had lost it.  Sometimes things are just meant to be!

 

[Dusty]

One time dad found a billfold in the cattle lot.  We were thinking WTF for awhile and so we finally decided to track the kid down who it belonged to.  He was only 15 miles away.  Well turns out he had been parked out on the headland of a field one night that belonged to a guy dad bought hay from... Somehow his wallet fell out of the car and ended up rolled up in a bale of hay.

 

[stangs13]

out of the bales I load for the feed store I have found I have found snakes..thats about it...how do yall not see cattle or deer when your mowing down hay? lol.

 

[farwest]

It wasn't tony was it Dusty.   Did he say why he was parked there. )) O0

 

[shortyjock89]

out of the bales I load for the feed store I have found I have found snakes..thats about it...how do yall not see cattle or deer when your mowing down hay? lol.

They were too busy looking for snakes and golf balls  O0

 

[common sense]

I found a man's billfold in a bale of stalks that I had run through the bale processor.  It had the driver's license, several credit cards, a casino card and from what I could tell, about 300 dollars! Bad part was that all that was left of the  cash was the magnetic strip that runs through the end of the bill.  The rest had disintegrated.  Called the owner and he was shocked. He had lost it two years earlier when he was planting corn.  What were the odds?!!!

 

[Rocky Hill Simmental]

We've found bones, rocks, and round up mice in feed bags before. My uncle found a whole dead rat in a bag of feed that wasn't even opened before that. Weird..  (lol)

 

[BCCC]

..how do yall not see cattle or deer when your mowing down hay? lol.

On the rotary head swathers there is a big platform over the rotary discs and you cant see anything that goes into the headers on them, and if a fawn is laying down he is bye bye as we normally run about 12-14mph with them. I couldn't tell with the chopper as I have only ran it once when chopping hay, but My guess you cant see much when running in 7-8 foot tall corn, and he probally was looking at a semi pullin up or seeing how he needed to fill the trailer.

 

[Dusty]

A deer fawn's instincts tell it to stay bedded tight no matter what is going on around them.  So they just stay laying there and get chewed up by the mower. 

 

[clubcalve]

We have hit turkeys befor usually hens sitting on nests and of course Snakes

 

[BCCC]

Just rembered one time we were picking up small sqaures bales and when the bale dropped off the popper, my cusion went to go pick it up and there was a LIVE rattle snake tired under one of the strings!

 

[farmboy]

I am never bailing hay

 

[LazyGLowlines]

I am never bailing hay

Zach, I'm with you!  I'll also pay alot more attention when I'm feeding, especially after hearing all these stories.

 

[farmboy]

snakes are just.... not my thing. now if i could pack a shotgun with me, it might be a different story

 

[ROAD WARRIOR]

I have baled nearly every type of wildlife that occurrs naturally here. Skunks, deer, coons, turkeys, pheasants, snakes, possums, etc. etc. The strangest thing I've heard of was when my girlfriend was helping do chores for a neighbor that had got his foot in an auger. While getting corn out of a bin to feed his cows they ran acrossed the neighbors big toe! RW

 

[stangs13]

..how do yall not see cattle or deer when your mowing down hay? lol.

On the rotary head swathers there is a big platform over the rotary discs and you cant see anything that goes into the headers on them, and if a fawn is laying down he is bye bye as we normally run about 12-14mph with them. I couldn't tell with the chopper as I have only ran it once when chopping hay, but My guess you cant see much when running in 7-8 foot tall corn, and he probally was looking at a semi pullin up or seeing how he needed to fill the trailer.

I asked my dad, and he said he used to hit fawns and all the other critters also...I understand fawns, but adult deer and cattle? You would think they would hear it coming!

 

[BCCC]

..how do yall not see cattle or deer when your mowing down hay? lol.

On the rotary head swathers there is a big platform over the rotary discs and you cant see anything that goes into the headers on them, and if a fawn is laying down he is bye bye as we normally run about 12-14mph with them. I couldn't tell with the chopper as I have only ran it once when chopping hay, but My guess you cant see much when running in 7-8 foot tall corn, and he probally was looking at a semi pullin up or seeing how he needed to fill the trailer.

I asked my dad, and he said he used to hit fawns and all the other critters also...I understand fawns, but adult deer and cattle? You would think they would hear it coming!

Haha imagine a 1400lb steer that had been missing for 2 weeks, and all that time he was in the corn just imagine how bloated he probally was...Not sure I am just guessing :'(

 

[yousesteers]

Calves will lay there I  got a nieghbor that was clipping pastures and hit a 300 lb calf that just laid there he never saw it split it right in half

 

[BIGTEX]

I hay picked up lots of square bales with FIRE ANTS all over them!

 

[bcosu]

we always have some trash in a couple fields close to the roads. i am not much of a snake person either so when i was mowing hay one afternoon i looked down in a corner and saw something black and i thought it was a belt but then i realized the mower would have stopped cutting if a belt was missing. as i got closer i saw it move and then i realized it was a snake and a BIG rat snake at that. I didn't trust the mower to hit it so i ran over it about three times before i felt like it was safe to continue mowing.