meal trough

leoch

Justvwondering wat people use in there sheds to feed meal at the barrier,,,, I for one didnt leave another barrier or meal trough at the back of the slats for this as it would be much quicker than standing about waiting for them to eat out of halved blue barrels on top of silage ,,, the barrels are then moved about to handy buy the biggest or greedy ones or they are spilled ,,,, does anyone use some kind of swing down troughs or something more stable than the barrels and I have no help to lift in and out the big galvanised 8ft feeders

49801

Just tip it on da silage here.

Some fellas make a trough outta a twin wall pipe cut length ways and have a simple bracket that slides on top of the feed barrier wall.
Advantage is it gets cleaned out fast and can be taken away when they r done

smokey-fitz

leoch wrote: »

Justvwondering wat people use in there sheds to feed meal at the barrier,,,, I for one didnt leave another barrier or meal trough at the back of the slats for this as it would be much quicker than standing about waiting for them to eat out of halved blue barrels on top of silage ,,, the barrels are then moved about to handy buy the biggest or greedy ones or they are spilled ,,,, does anyone use some kind of swing down troughs or something more stable than the barrels and I have no help to lift in and out the big galvanised 8ft feeders

I give meal 1st in morning before silage so its on concrete. When meal is gone I then drop in the silage, by the time I finish giving meal to all, the 1st lot are done. My weanling shed dosent have enough spaces to feed meal that way so I have hanging plastic troughs hanging on the gates, tied with wire so they cant knock them off. Works well. Can you not just leave a trough in the shed?

I said

Peg it on the silage they'll ate it