Originally posted by whitetailfanatic
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Can you show me your cotton seed feeder?
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We feed it on the ground. Fill up a small stock trailer once a week, drive around the ranch and put a pile beside the road every quarter mile or so. Come back a week later and you can't find one seed. Only time I've ever seen rain hurt it is if it rains heavy, for days and days on end. If that happens, you don't need any more cottonseed.
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We bought a roll of 58-inch V-Mesh (165 ft) at Uvalco Supply Store and I think it ran a bit under $450. That's higher than giraffe tail but it beats the expense of pellet feeders by a long shot.
Here's what you'll need:
1. V-Mesh
2. Tape measurer
2. Bolt cutters
3. Hog rings (approximately 10 per feeder)
4. Hog ring clamps
5. T-posts (one per feeder)
6. T-post driver
7. Young men with strong backs to work (lots of stooping involved)
8. A drink to watch them work (or at least that's what my dad did while we built them)
9. Cottonseed (hard as hell to find right now)
We cut the pens 80 inches long with bolt cutters, overlapped the ends 3-4 inches and tied them together with hog rings. This was my first go around and they are surprisingly simple to make. We completed 14 of them in about an hour with one man cutting the length and two more following him tying them together. Of course, that does not count t-post drive time--and we had a few drinks before we began. We didn't use the whole role on this trip but (theoretically) it should make 24.75 feeders. We used 6-ft t-posts.
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Originally posted by Bodey View PostWe feed it on the ground. Fill up a small stock trailer once a week, drive around the ranch and put a pile beside the road every quarter mile or so. Come back a week later and you can't find one seed. Only time I've ever seen rain hurt it is if it rains heavy, for days and days on end. If that happens, you don't need any more cottonseed.
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Pigs may not be able to eat it, but that doesnt stop them from thinking about it! Hopefully I can stick this bad boy before he does too much damage to all my feeding equipment. I dont know if hog panels will keep him out!
Onto the topic, I made mine 96" in length, so that when rolled up, they had about a 3' diameter. My feeders hold about 500 lbs a piece when full. I have had great success with them.
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Originally posted by rtp View PostWhere in Sinton did you get the cotton seed and do you know if they had anymore?
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