feeding big bale silage

Pan mixer

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
I use one at a barrier, my barriers have a 4 foot high panel in front of them 4 feet away so that the feed stays local and the draught gets deflected upwards, It works fine although tricky to get even but I feed ad lib so it doesn't matter much.

The saving in terms of time cutting off wrap and net is immense, I use the Tanco one
 

Drillman

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Mixed Farmer
Someone locally tried that with a chopped bale it was a complete disaster.
Bought a feeder wagon to feed them in trough now
I don’t have a problem with chopped silage,

use it for straw bedding as well, OSR straw out of our rotary combine is like matchsticks but it will deal with that just fine
 

hally

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Livestock Farmer
Location
cumbria
I don’t have a problem with chopped silage,

use it for straw bedding as well, OSR straw out of our rotary combine is like matchsticks but it will deal with that just fine
Ok when bales are very dry or on mature silage but if in short, wet or heavily chopped bales our hustler used to struggle. Diet feeder now, more diesel but option to add meal or straw into the ration.
 

Drillman

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Mixed Farmer
Ok when bales are very dry or on mature silage but if in short, wet or heavily chopped bales our hustler used to struggle. Diet feeder now, more diesel but option to add meal or straw into the ration.
Never had the issue of wet bales as we run our own baling and wrapping kit so fully in control of how it’s made.
 

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