City Boy Asking a Farm Question

[basementdweller]

NittanyLion

I hated the smell of silage and just reading the word makes my stomach turn. 

 

great thread. I love the smell of silage, it takes me back to when I was around dairy farms, good years.

Love the old AC pickers, the productivity of today's harvesters is staggering.

[NorthBrit]

leewal

In a box of "stuff" from a garage sale I found a LifeLike blister pack of corn heads labled HO. Those things are huge. Are they really HO? Are the real things that big? WOW

 

 

To answer the original question  --   sort of.

Sometimes people forget how tall things can grow.  1-76 scale  can still be big.

Here in the UK many modelers make things smaller than they should be.  They make fields look newly mown and off course overgrown  fields come  in  various  sizes.  Only two years ago   I was struggling to walk through a field full of tall grasses.  So tall they were up above my chest.

On my layout,  Leeds Sovereign Street & Clarence Dock I originally bought 1-76 scale warehouses.   They looked okay until I  found a company making  Leeds warehouse pictures for the backscene.  They are a third bigger than the original warehouses I purchased.

Yes!   Things can be huge. 

 

David

 

 

[Overmod]

mvlandsw

Would something like that be used in chicken farming?

Depends to an extent on whether you're running a 'chicken mill' or not.  Above a certain density it becomes difficult to use something like deep-litter method, and turkeys tend to be much larger and don't turn over the litter as readily, so something absorbent that helps prevent ammonia formation is likely to help if you have lots of 'em in confined quarters.  Chicken habits are a bit different, unless you're mass-raising them...

Much the same kind of argument as for slurry feeding in the cattle industry a couple of decades ago.  It's a high-volume expedient.