Fall Harvest Under Way

[maduroman]

thing is, the gas off the fermentation of the silage is poisonous and will kill you dead very quickly.
lost 2/3s of the pigs one year after filling the stave silo and wound up with wet damp weather with a breeze that blew the fermintation gas into a farrowing house... kinda sickening to spend a day dragging dead sows and baby pigs out to the rendering truck.

 

[koshersmoke]

that sucks but can you still make them into something to eat after they died?

 

[mlaug]

No, he would have had to take the loss.
Insurance? Hopefully.
Silo gas is bad news.

 

[maduroman]

the pigs were made into dog food, there was no insurance.
every year farmers die from silo gas and gas from manure pits.