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38 THE RURAL VOICE
include TMR, they felt they'd rather
do without the barn if it meant doing
without TMR.
They installed an electrically -
powered round bale chopper —
perhaps the only one in western
Ontario — saving the necessity of
getting a larger tractor to power the
chopper. The electrical power also let
them place the machine right in the
feed room, which is an old bunk silo
on the side of the old barn. The bale
chopper can easily be fed through
Targe doors that allow the tractor to
bring in bales from outside storage.
Once chopped, the hay goes to a
conveyor and into the mixer. They
use a TMR cart to take the feed from
the mixer to the feeders in front of
the cattle.
The old square baler has been
sold. Now they never handle
the forage by hand from the
field to the cow. They use both round
cured hay and baleage as well as corn
silage.
Besides the cost saving of
enlarging their tie -stall operation,
there were lifestyle considerations.
"We like the way a row of cows
look," Jocelyn says. "We like to
work with the cows. We're not
particularly interested in doing a lot
of cashcropping or field work."
"And we like to be able to treat
them (the cows) as individuals," Ken
adds. "The whole philosophy of free
stalls is that the cows are treated as
groups whereas we like to treat our
cows as individuals."
They're happy now with the new
barn but it was surprising how long it
took to develop the new routine
needed to manage the barn, Jocelyn
says. "The first few months we
wondered 'what the heck have we
done', but it's got a quite a bit better
now."
Two people do the milking and it
takes two to two -and -a -half hours to
complete the morning milking and
two hours at night, barring
interruptions. It's about the same
time they spent with fewer cows in
the old barn.
They need any time that can be
saved because of their heavy
committment to off -farm volunteer
activities.
Jocelyn is the partner who's most
busy off the farm these days. She's a
leader of a girls' group at the church,