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Post & Beam (Original Post) justaprogressive Dec 2023 OP
Nice structure! CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2023 #1
nice big barn justaprogressive Dec 2023 #3
I love barns, they're stories each and every one... MiHale Dec 2023 #2
True! justaprogressive Dec 2023 #4
I love old barns, but they're disappearing from the landscape. sinkingfeeling Dec 2023 #5
yes justaprogressive Dec 2023 #7
The beef farm I grew up on had at least nine similar barns. The upper level was filled with hay twodogsbarking Dec 2023 #6

twodogsbarking

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6. The beef farm I grew up on had at least nine similar barns. The upper level was filled with hay
Fri Dec 1, 2023, 11:24 AM
Dec 2023

and had the smell of hay. Different in winter and summer. The ground level housed the cows in the winter. They were pastured in the summer.
Ground level was not as cold in winter due to the cows and manure. Smelled like cow poop but also from food they ate. Silage which was chopped corn, stalk and all, blown into the silo in fall and fed in the winter. Put chopped corn kernals mixed with oats on top of the silage. Cows loved it. They were also fed hay and bedding was straw so those smells were there too. Cows breathing in cold temps made a mist. Hauled manure and spread on fields during the winter. We wintered about 250 animals and had about 200 calves each year. Sold breeding stock across the east coast and some to Texas. Herefords.
A couple barns remain but are not used.

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