Anyone using a snacker ?

cattle man

As above any one using a snacker. What's your feelings good job or bad for feeding pre lambing

ganmo

Have one here.
Ya'd want to be feeding more than a bag at a time to make it worth while hooking it up.
The biggest things to watch out for when using one are that no ewe gets between the quad and the snacker when starting to feed and on ours the handle to open the bottom of it can be opened if driving over rough ground too quickly

Cran

cattle man wrote: »

As above any one using a snacker. What's your feelings good job or bad for feeding pre lambing

Great job feed lot of ewes in short time with one, TBH if running numbers in outdoor system would say needed really

sheepfarmer92

Have one here, great job for feeding numbers of sheep, just be carefull if your ever taking it off with meal in it, our one when you go to put it again, it tends to flip over when you lift the drawbar!

cattle man

Is it a logic with the counter or the Portequip one ye have ? Price a Portequip one this morning 1300 including vat.
Would you say you need to feed cobs with them or is nuts ok ?

rangler1

cattle man wrote: »

Is it a logic with the counter or the Portequip one ye have ? Price a Portequip one this morning 1300 including vat.
Would you say you need to feed cobs with them or is nuts ok ?

Nuts are fine in dry weather like this but it really needs cobs in wet weather or very big nuts. we've heavy land here and the ground is wet all the time in wet weather and the pellets really soak it up.....more free draining land might work better, but cobs work 100%

Cran

cattle man wrote: »

Is it a logic with the counter or the Portequip one ye have ? Price a Portequip one this morning 1300 including vat.
Would you say you need to feed cobs with them or is nuts ok ?

No have a swaledale, seriously well made. Didn't buy logic at the time as was changing between machines all the time.
Now with changed infrastructure here and way the pound is I might change to a logic

ganmo

We have ours donkeys! Not sure who the manufacturer was, think it came from Scotland.
Only ever put nuts through ours, they wouldn't be lasting on the ground too long to pick up much water

sheepfarmer92

Ours is a highland, its getting a bit shook, #Cran where did you get your swaledale snacker?, like the look of them big wheels! feed nuts through ours which work grand but our land is dry

Cran

sheepfarmer92 wrote: »

Ours is a highland, its getting a bit shook, #Cran where did you get your swaledale snacker?, like the look of them big wheels! feed nuts through ours which work grand but our land is dry

From crew in the north McKays I think, will check. Big wheels are a great job

sheepfarmer92

Cran wrote: »

From crew in the north McKays I think, will check. Big wheels are a great job

I must suss them out, yes I'd say they're good for going on the road too!

stantheman1979

We have the portaquip. Simply wouldnt be without it. So easy to use and less stress on the sheep

Cran

sheepfarmer92 wrote: »

I must suss them out, yes I'd say they're good for going on the road too!

That's reason I got it go behind jeep with higher clearance & wider distance between drops. Don't go on road now with it and only pull with quad so thinking of logic now, drop count be handy and electric open

rangler1

Cran wrote: »

That's reason I got it go behind jeep with higher clearance & wider distance between drops. Don't go on road now with it and only pull with quad so thinking of logic now, drop count be handy and electric open

I bought the snacker before the quad, thought I'd pull it with the jeep.
Too easy to hurt/ kill sheep due to poor visibility, Sheep used to go in in front of the wheels of the snacker
had to spend another six grand on a quad then

sheepfarmer92

Same here rangler, we still use it behind jeep when going to the outfarm have to be carefull not to hit any sheep , I see the logic has a bull bar on front to help keep sheep from going under the wheels, yes cran the electric dropper would be handy!

Jimbo789

Does anyone put chopped Beet in their snacker or think that this would work?

rangler1

Jimbo789 wrote: »

Does anyone put chopped Beet in their snacker or think that this would work?

coarse ration won't flow in ours, so I doubt if beet would work. Our snacker was a cheapie and has a wide low vicon type fibreglass hopper, portequip is more tall and narrow.
Even if it flowed into the barrel at the bottom, it'd probably block in that too

Jimbo789

rangler1 wrote: »

coarse ration won't flow in ours, so I doubt if beet would work. Our snacker was a cheapie and has a wide low vicon type fibreglass hopper, portequip is more tall and narrow.
Even if it flowed into the barrel at the bottom, it'd probably block in that too

What about one with a sliding door on bottom that opens and closes like the logic model, is this more likely to work?

cattle man

Any one know someone supplying logic snackers in the west. Got a price for Portequip but can't find a supplier of logic ?

sheepfarmer92

cattle man wrote: »

Any one know someone supplying logic snackers in the west. Got a price for Portequip but can't find a supplier of logic ?

Lambert atvs in castlerea do them, just seen on internet

sheepfarmer92

Don't think fodder beet would flow right, fed beet whole here out side before just used a 4ton trailer and tip it slightly, let it roll off

cattle man

sheepfarmer92 wrote: »

Lambert atvs in castlerea do them, just seen on internet

Big price difference logic 2600-2800
Portequip 1300

sheepfarmer92

2600 is a lot of money for simple machine!

cattle man

sheepfarmer92 wrote: »

2600 is a lot of money for simple machine!

For the few weeks of the year it's used I'd say the other one would be adequate

Ard_MC

cattle man wrote: »

Big price difference logic 2600-2800
Portequip 1300

Christ I was thinkin about getting 1 as the old man does most of the feeding as I be away at work...but for 100 ewes, ill come up with plan B!

Cattlepen

Have had logic here for bout 20 years. Good but the bearing on the stub axles wear very easily and I have been unable to find anyone that sticks them other than logic at an exorbitant price. Think portaquip might be worth looking at

cattle man

Cattlepen wrote: »

Have had logic here for bout 20 years. Good but the bearing on the stub axles wear very easily and I have been unable to find anyone that sticks them other than logic at an exorbitant price. Think portaquip might be worth looking at

The disadvantages I've been told about the portagri is there's no counter for drop. You can only have a few settings as 0.5 kg is lowest. And the drop distance can't be altered.
But really I don't see them as much of a problem in reality.
At 1300 there a lot better priced.