Overview
In this guide you will learn how to take care of a cattle farm start off old and small and spend under $146,000. You will also learn how to feed you cows straw wiyhout the straw blower and without the baler or tractor with forks or bale forks. You will learn how to feed your cows silage without corn or silage cutter.
Equipment
In order to have the low cost cattle farm you will need to purchase all of the following equipment.
Linder BF 450 $15,000
Duetz D80 $20,000
Guldner G40 loader $17,000
Guldnef G40 Bucket $400
Krone Optimat $5,200
Kuhn FA367 mower $1,950
Pottinger 300 windrower $2,000
Bucher TRL2600 Loading Wagon $27,500
Fahr M66 $32,000
Fahr M66 Cutter $5,500
Krone Emsland $4,900
Lemken Kristall 9 Cultivator $9,290
Amazone D1 sower $4,500
After all of this equipment has been purchased you can take all of it up to you cattle farm.
Silage
In order to get silage without corn or the silage harvester you need to have these equipment
Kuhn FA367 mower
Pottinger 300 windrower
Bucher TRL2600 loading wagon
To get silage with this equipment you need to get a field (I recomend feild #35 and it costs $22,000)
and plant it with grass I would set the time to 120x to let the grass grow quicker and once it has grown I would recomend mowing only half of it and then rake it and collect he grass with he loading wagon. After you have collected all of the grass (or the loading wagon gets full) you can dump it into the silage bunker beside the cow pen. After the bunker has gotten to be 10% full you can tatp it to start the fermatting process. After the white tarp uncovers form the silage byitsels then the silage is dried and ready to be fed to the cows. You can use the Guldner G40 loader with the Guldner G4 bucket to transport it to the cattle trough.
straw
To do this version of the straw feeding Process you will need
Fahr M66
Fahr M66 Cutter
Bucher TRL2600 loading wagon
A field planted with either Barley or Wheat
Krone Emsland
Duetz D80
To feeds the straw to your cattle without the baler or the straw blower you can pick a field that has either Wheat or Barley planted and once the field is picked you can take the Bucher TRL2600 and collect all of the straw. Once the loading wagon gets full or the straw is all collected you can take the straw up to the cattle farm and dump it in the feeding barn.
Milk
As long as you keep grass or any other food in the trough your cows will produce milk. The milk truck comes twice a day so that gies you time to make more food and feed your cows and will get paid twice a day.
Manure
If you want to have manure come into the manure bunker you will need to keep straw in the barn and silage in the trough.
Conclusion
As this guide has come to the end and you have learned the basics for a small cattle farm. If you would like to know any more walkthroughs let me know.