Smart - what do the wire for the totes cost and where do you buy them? Thanks
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Originally posted by Cstat_hunter View PostThis is a newbie question but are yall feeding straight cotton seed or cotton seed hulled
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Originally posted by Huntingfool View PostSmart - what do the wire for the totes cost and where do you buy them? Thanks
They are the metal support cages around water totes. I pulled the bladders out and the floors off to get to what I use. I had one tote with a hole in it from my feedpen setups I tore apart and then I placed an ad on TBH in the classifieds to buy or remove a few that folks wanted to get rid of.....I was looking for bad totes or ones they didn't want in their way anymore. Got quite a few replies and got the rest of mine for free. I don't think they are readily available for sale at tote places because they can easily just slide another bladder in or replace a valve and they are back in business. I would look to find somebody who wants to get rid of some or find somebody selling totes cheap ($30 or less) and get em that way. Doesn't take much at all to break them down.....10-15 minutes tops.
I like them because they hold a lot of seed, don't require a tpost in our rocky terrain, they don't smash or bend since they are so rigid, and when I am done with them for the year I just pull the cage off to the side out of the way and it sits until January.
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Originally posted by texas shag View Post
One of ours. We have two baskets per feed pen to reduce competition for feed at each basket. I think we fed over 40 tons last year.
Deer take to it quickly. If they have never seen it, best to sprinkle some corn on the top of the seed pile and on top of the seed overflow on the ground. That way the deer start consuming it accidentally. They will get hooked in short order.
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I am not far from freer. Last year I tried it on my place for the first time and put out 1000 pounds between 2 setups I had penned in with protein in February . I kept dressing it up and turning it trying to keep it fresh but when I finally tore them down in August I would guess the deer had only eaten 100-200 pounds total out of it so I will not be doing it again on my place.
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Originally posted by sundownbrown View PostAn there are a lot of you guys hunting around freer like me
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