Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Devonviolet]

Hey Joe. I’m trying to quote your’s and Bay’s messages about the rain. I highlight, click “Quote”, then when ready, click “Insert Quotes”. The popup says “Quote these messages”. I click on that, and nothing happens. I tried multiple times. What’s up with that????

ANYHOOOO! We ended up with 0.85” over the two days. It thundered, lighteninged and POURED for about an hour and a half on Sunday morning. The nice thing about it . . . It’s keeping the temps down. Hottest it got today was 88F.

 

[greybeard]

Hey Joe. I’m trying to quote your’s and Bay’s messages about the rain. I highlight, click “Quote”, then when ready, click “Insert Quotes”. The popup says “Quote these messages”. I click on that, and nothing happens. I tried multiple times. What’s up with that????

ANYHOOOO! We ended up with 0.85” over the two days. It thundered, lighteninged and POURED for about an hour and a half on Sunday morning. The nice thing about it . . . It’s keeping the temps down. Hottest it got today was 88F.

Highlight, then click 'reply', not quote.

We had a quarter inch from the past two days. Today we got 3/4 inch for a whopping total of ONE INCH!

OK then... since finishing goat chores around 8:30 or so, we've had some pretty decent rain here. Looks like Bay and DV have as well. Just had a pretty decent size T-storm cell pass over SW to NE. Looks like more rain coming behind it

 

[Latestarter]

I highlight, click “Quote”, then when ready, click “Insert Quotes”. The popup says “Quote these messages”. I click on that, and nothing happens. I tried multiple times. What’s up with that????

I just did exactly the procedure you outlined and you can see your text quoted above. I'm using a desktop computer though and you're on a phone so it may be different. Perhaps GB's way will work for you?

Highlight, then click 'reply', not quote.

<---Done GB's way, just clicked reply and it moved the quote to here.

 

[greybeard]

If I choose 'quote' this is the popup I get:

However, nothing actually happens in my reply. No quote, no nothing.

If I choose reply under the highlighted text, the software adds the text to where ever my last cursor position was in the reply box, but no popup appears at the top, which is understandable as none would be needed. I've done it this way since the 1st day I joined BYH.

 

[Devonviolet]

I've always done it the way i said above. Wnen I clicked "quote these messages", all the messages, that I had highlighted went into the reply box. This time it didnt work. Next time i will try clicking "reply" instead of "quote". Hopefully thay will work.

 

[Latestarter]

When I high lite the text, this is what it looks like & asks if I want to quote or reply:

After I click "quote" I get the following screen display. It stays this way and I can high lite additional text and click the quote button as well to add other quoted text:

I then go down to the reply block where I'm typing my response and place the cursor where I want the quotes. I then press the "Insert Quotes" button (red arrow) and it opens a box with all the quotes I've high lited. I can then delete any that I don't want then select to "Quote These Messages" (blue arrow):

Once I click that, the following is what shows up in the reply box where I had the cursor placed. You can see both quotes have been entered in HTML:

When I click to "Post Reply":

However, nothing actually happens in my reply. No quote, no nothing.

Next time i will try clicking "reply" instead of "quote". Hopefully thay will work.

ETA: The new post appears showing the quotes as a web page with no HTML script right above here. (will add pic as edit to add):

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[Mini Horses]

Since LS & I have pastures we are cutting -- AMPLE rain here, can't even get there to cut -- I'd like some input as to the quality of the grass that has been banked for winter graze. While I sometimes have a couple small pastures that I use this way successfully, this year it may be a lot more!

Those with livestock who do this, please input. I do understand grasses vary in quality but, do you feel it is a worthwhile effort to decrease some hay? So far I have had decent results -- never this much, this high. Obviously the regrowth is not there as in a summer graze.

 

[Latestarter]

Isn't hay made of grasses? Many folks buy "grass" hay for their animals vice named hay such as alflafa or coastal or orchard, etc. It will lose some nutrition as it dies/dries, but how much? If the small ones worked why wouldn't the larger ones? I mean, if you know you can get hay later if needed, save the money and use what you have to start out... That's what I'd do. But then I'm a hobbyist, not a farmer, and very inexperienced. JMHO.

 

[greybeard]

Once I click that, the following is what shows up in the reply box where I had the cursor placed. You can see both quotes have been entered in HTML:

The part that the lower right red arrow is pointing to is NOT HTML. It's BB.
HTML uses </> and BB Code uses [/]

The final version, after submitting is HTML, but not in the edit or reply box.

Your method seems like extra work to accomplish the same thing I do, but then again, I rarely use the little boxes at the top of the reply box and choose to just type out the bb code. I have had trouble in the past, with an entire reply showing up as underlined or bold, or italics because the software insisted on what should have been a short emphasized portion all the way thru the entire reply, even tho I
un-clicked the box. I would have to edit it, using the bbcode editor at the top right of the reply box (wrench over the sheet of paper icon) to get it straightened out.

 

[greybeard]

Since LS & I have pastures we are cutting -- AMPLE rain here, can't even get there to cut -- I'd like some input as to the quality of the grass that has been banked for winter graze. While I sometimes have a couple small pastures that I use this way successfully, this year it may be a lot more!

Those with livestock who do this, please input. I do understand grasses vary in quality but, do you feel it is a worthwhile effort to decrease some hay? So far I have had decent results -- never this much, this high. Obviously the regrowth is not there as in a summer graze.

What kind of grass is it?
What you call 'banked' is more often called 'stockpiling' and some grasses pull it off lots better than others, and some (like Bahia) can't be stockpiled at all because they completely stop growing at 1st frost. Cool season grasses like Fescue and grasses like ky bluegrass do it extremely well. Bermuda can be stockpiled, but it's more difficult.
If you can set up movable or temp fences for strip grazing, it works really well.

Protein and TDN in stockpiled grass is as good or better than most hay of the same type, but stockpiled grass needs to be grazed down by mid Jan and certainly by Feb when the coldest weather hits.
The big advantage of stockpiling is costs. Per animal/day--cattle:
 Haying: $.91 to 1.09/day x 80 days = $73 - $87 per adult animal during winter haying.
 Stockpile + Stripgraze: .43/day x 80 days = $34.40
$38.60 – 52.60/cow savings/year.
For my 25 head cow herd, that would be a cost savings of over $900/season (not incl labor of moving the cattle every few days or cost of the fences)
I do know (from other forums) that lots of people in Va do stockpile fescue, and are very successful with it. I intend to do it with crabgrass this year.