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Umm, what's a mangel?
I had never heard of it before, until I saw it on here. Where do you get it, how do you grow it, what do you use it for and how? I googled it, and got some weird results.
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A mangle is a huge beet that is grown as stock feed. Before reapers, they--and other root crops--were more common as stock feed then grains. Sugar beets are a type of, or were bred from, mangles.
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02/25/08, 05:06 PM
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paul got it... a mangel is a type of fibrous root from which sugar could be extracted. Common to grow in fields where pigs will then root.
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02/25/08, 05:07 PM
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Its also a type of ironer for ironing large flat items.
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02/25/08, 05:17 PM
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Thanks. So where do I get them? I suppose they come from seed, do I plant them just like beets and turnips? And do they store well? Has anyone ever fed them to goats?
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02/25/08, 05:32 PM
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Mangle.... what a raccoon does to a chicken in present tense.
Mangled.... after said deed is done....past tense.
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02/25/08, 05:35 PM
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I agree somewhat.
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Its also a type of ironer for ironing large flat items.
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Well I agree somewhat with your statement. However they aren't just used for large flat items. Here is a photo and a history link to Ironrite ironers. http://www.irons.com/ironrite.htm
Ironrite ironers were often sold by door to door salesmen back in the 1950s and perhaps other times before wrinkle resistant clothing came in regular usage.
My mother purchased an Ironrite and did up all of our clothing on it. She received small cash rewards for having given sales leads that lead to purchases by others.
Some years ago I came across an Ironrite setting beside a curb after a yard sale and inquired about it. I could have it for hauling it off. For a number of years I ironed my shirts, pants, and jeans with it.
There is a learning curve but once one becomes familiar with the knee controls ironing goes quickly and much faster than with a hand iron. One knee control starts and stops the turning of the padded roller, while the other lowers and lifts the roller from the heated iron. When first learning "mangle" is a proper word to use. Seems you put more wrinkles in than take out.
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02/25/08, 06:40 PM
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Mangel is a beet. Mangle is an ironing machine. Those huge seed catalog printed on newprint, that comes in the mail, Gurney's?, had seeds for them not so long ago. Sue
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02/25/08, 06:44 PM
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I understand that the mangel is used extensively as a fodder crop for pigs and sheep in England, though I've not heard of them being used in Aust.
I was under the impression that a mangle, which had two large wooden rollers and was turned by hand, was used to press the water out of wet laundry. (In Aust it was known as a 'wringer', though no twisting was done to the clothes as when hand wringing.)
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02/25/08, 06:50 PM
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mangle is what my son did to my pickup truck.
Wringer is what I put him through.
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You can get them from Baker Creek: http://rareseeds.com/seeds/Beetroot They are the "Mammoth Red Mangel". We grow them most every year and feed them to our chickens and goats. They are easy to grow and harvest--just keep them away from the deer. One year the deer ate every one we planted; now we grow them behind our "deer proof" fence. They are kind of hard to chop up for the chickens as they are huge and on the hard side. We use a heavy butcher knife. The chickens love them as does our goat. Apparently you can eat them when they are small, however, we never have tried them because we always grown Cylindra beets for table use.
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02/25/08, 08:01 PM
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Yup, sugar beets. Huge things, if you're thinking "beets"  When I was a kid, the farmer couple across the street fed their (stabled) cows hay and mangels.
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02/25/08, 09:49 PM
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I don't know and am asking.
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Yup, sugar beets. Huge things, if you're thinking "beets" When I was a kid, the farmer couple across the street fed their (stabled) cows hay and mangels. |
I really don't know and am asking---aren't sugar beets and mangel beet two different things?
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02/25/08, 10:02 PM
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As far as I can remember, they're considered the same thing over in Germany. On small farms in Swabia anyway? Hm. Now I'll drive myself bananas to try and remember more clearly.
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02/25/08, 10:18 PM
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Ok, scientifically speaking, what they feed to cows is Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. crassa; sugar beet is Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. altissima; and mangel is Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. vulgaris, with two forms: convar. flavescens or convar. vulgaris.
(I think that's why they just call the stuff sugar beets and be done with it, LOL!)
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02/25/08, 10:29 PM
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Ok, scientifically speaking, what they feed to cows is Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. crassa; sugar beet is Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. altissima; and mangel is Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. vulgaris, with two forms: convar. flavescens or convar. vulgaris.
(I think that's why they just call the stuff sugar beets and be done with it, LOL!)
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How can anything with "vulgar" in the name, be good? That word can't be in the same sentence with anything good. lol Ain't never liked beets, now I know I'll never try them again. Eddie
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02/26/08, 09:31 AM
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I ordered mangel seeds thru a Canadian source. We are looking for alternatives to having to buy grain, etc. for our pigs. They are supposedly good for all livestock to eat.
We want to store a lot of them in the fall, so that we will have something to feed the new pigs, come the hungry gap in March/April.
I think it is good to find other ways of feeding livestock rather than buying feed from the feedstore. With prices continuing to climb, it makes sense to us to give it a try!
Apparently, you can store them just like other root vegetables. This will be our first year trying to grow them.
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How can anything with "vulgar" in the name, be good? That word can't be in the same sentence with anything good. lol Ain't never liked beets, now I know I'll never try them again. Eddie |
Eh? The Latin "vulgaris" means "common"!
If anyone wants just a packet of about 400 seeds, I can get them from Jung's for $1.75 + 9¢ tax + 80¢ postage + 23¢ bubble envelope; $2.87 total.
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Last edited by Paquebot; 02/26/08 at 03:36 PM.
Reason: To correct half-ounce packet quantity. 400 vs. 800 as initially posted.
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