Meal wasted feeding with baled silage

Dunedin

I have a 9 foot Centre passage which is tight enough and often see a lot of the meal wasted under the silage. I try to pull back the silage before giving the nuts but even at thAt, still waste there.

Any solutions out there.

Reggie.

Dunedin wrote: »

I have a 9 foot Centre passage which is tight enough and often see a lot of the meal wasted under the silage. I try to pull back the silage before giving the nuts but even at thAt, still waste there.

Any solutions out there.

Use some blue barrels or jfc pipe cut in half on top of the silage

DaDerv

Dunedin wrote: »

I have a 9 foot Centre passage which is tight enough and often see a lot of the meal wasted under the silage. I try to pull back the silage before giving the nuts but even at thAt, still waste there.

Any solutions out there.

Always had the same problem. They just cant get some of the nuts. Last year i started using sheep troughs in front of weanlings and found it much cleaner. Sweep any that fell off the troughs in and they licked them up after. Then I threw in the silage after that. Becomes a bit of a routine and works for me.

Lady Haywire

Don't often feed the cows but stretching last winter we did, nuts, not meal but anyway!
We swept back all the scraggy silage remainder from the ground with a yardbrush so the concrete was bare before we poured the nuts out. Brush had to be used as we get it chopped fine enough so doesn't fork well.
5 mins after feeding i'd walk in front of the line & sweep any back in that had rolled too far into the passage for them to reach. Barely a nut wasted!
The crappy stuff was then used as bedding for the bull we were wintering in a calving pen. Not the driest but he lay in shíte half the time anyway.

wiggy123

not feed meal first-say morning time.. then time later-fire in silage, or do the silage part evening time

MikeSoys

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Don't often feed the cows but stretching last winter we did, nuts, not meal but anyway!
We swept back all the scraggy silage remainder from the ground with a yardbrush so the concrete was bare before we poured the nuts out. Brush had to be used as we get it chopped fine enough so doesn't fork well.
5 mins after feeding i'd walk in front of the line & sweep any back in that had rolled too far into the passage for them to reach. Barely a nut wasted!
The crappy stuff was then used as bedding for the bull we were wintering in a calving pen. Not the driest but he lay in shíte half the time anyway.

same approach we use.. never any nuts wasted either

MikeSoys

wiggy123 wrote: »

not feed meal first-say morning time.. then time later-fire in silage, or do the silage part evening time

we feed nuts 1st thing.. hardly and silage left from previous evening. after nuts are eaten .. feed silage and again feed silage in evening..