cutipacker for breaking up manure in pasture?

[Elviscaretaker]

We buy 12 chicks about every 3 years. First year we keep them in. About halfway through the second year I get fed up buying chicken food and run out of friends to unload eggs on, so we let the hens free range. Then we start loosing about 1 hen/month to coyotes.

I have ducks right now, but they don't seem to attract flys. The neighboring farm leases out the property for grazing and as soon as the cows are there, we get a bad fly problem. Nothing I can do about them but I try to keep ours taken care of. There are a few coyote and fox dens nearby, the "neighbor" loses a few each month and his coup looks like the chicken version of fort Knox. Anything small free ranging here doesn't last long, including cats. The feed can get expensive, I had close to 1k ducks before we made the move here. They free ranged but I still went through 50 pounds a day and I never saw a egg. They hid them well! Did see the babies later though. Good thing I like ducks, new owner of the old place took them all on except for my 20 favorites that I brought with us.

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

I pull 2 sections of 5' wide chain harrow side by side with a spreader bar in our pasture.. It works well breaking up any clumps, breaking down weed stalks, and messing up ant hills..

I also have a set of light truck tires (7) in a row of 3 infront of a row of 4, (about 8' wide) all bolted together similar to what is shown in post #25.. This works well also and is not quite as agressive as the chain harrow.. The chain harrow was on sale from our local auto farm store, but the tire impliment is a lot cheaper...

 

[oosik]

Way back - when I had a large rototiller. I used it - with limited success - to bust up cow pies. Set to just barely above the ground and drug along behind the tractor. It would have been much better if I had removed/burned all the weeds on the small pasture where I tried it.

It DID bust up the cow pies but also wound up every weed on the entire pasture. Took quite a while to clean up the tiller. Wasn't a whole lot of fun either. Wet cow pies all mixed in with the wound up weeds.

On another positive note - it clip down/grind off all those surface irregularities all over the pasture.

 

[Elviscaretaker]

Way back - when I had a large rototiller. I used it - with limited success - to bust up cow pies. Set to just barely above the ground and drug along behind the tractor. It would have been much better if I had removed/burned all the weeds on the small pasture where I tried it.

It DID bust up the cow pies but also wound up every weed on the entire pasture. Took quite a while to clean up the tiller. Wasn't a whole lot of fun either. Wet cow pies all mixed in with the wound up weeds.

On another positive note - it clip down/grind off all those surface irregularities all over the pasture.

Sounds like something I would have tried if it wasn't for the corrugated pasture I have. Really hate them, feel like a bobble head every time I go over it cross ways. But, it's my irrigation.....