Sheep Slats

Andrew mc govey

Hi Just looking to see if anyone has the solution to stop Sheep pulling in hay and silage on sheep slats. The Sheep slats are the wire mesh type and sheep love getting a mouth full of hay or silage through the barrier and heading to back of pen and let most of it fall and they would sooner starve than look at that piece on the slats again, This will be our third winter putting them on it last year we had all square bales and chopped every bale of hay before feeding them it and worked perfect slats were spotless the full winter but want to try something easier as it too too long to chop every bale of hay for 100 ewes every day. is feeding precision chop silage the best option or will this work same as chopping the hay?

wrangler

That's the best I've seen to stop sheep pulling in silage

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Andrew mc govey

That was my next option to try but want to be able to feed meal to the sheep also so bit of work to have these that its easy to lift them when feeding meal every day.

Andrew mc govey

Hi yes i had seen that link on Agriland back a while ago and that is my plan at the moment to try next as even do it will be a bit of work lifting them feeding meal letting them eat the meal pack in silage and lower the frames i still think it will be a faster option than the way i done it last year by chopping the square hay bales. I just wanted to see was there any other options as we would consider making precision chop silage next year if i thought that would work well for feeding.