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Durry cows

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Derbyshire
How are people finding these? Looking at them as an option to feed dairy heifers on straw and corn as opposed to out of a bag. Is it realistically accurate to “set” it to 3kg/head/day? Thanks
 
Are you just using cracked corn ?
We use these feeders for out wintered calves , tried blends in them but you have to have them opened up to much to get it to flow if you where wanting them down to 3kg.
Cake you will get down to 3kg but find in damp weather they can clog up when there are shut down .
There designed for grain really so if your corn is just cracked I would think it will run well enough that you could shut them down to 3kg or less .
 

Durry cows

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Location
Derbyshire
Are you just using cracked corn ?
We use these feeders for out wintered calves , tried blends in them but you have to have them opened up to much to get it to flow if you where wanting them down to 3kg.
Cake you will get down to 3kg but find in damp weather they can clog up when there are shut down .
There designed for grain really so if your corn is just cracked I would think it will run well enough that you could shut them down to 3kg or less .
Would be nuts only, realistically possible to restrict them to 3kg/each then you think? Would negate the need for feed space as well as making it less of a job filling a hopper with the loadall bucket whilst also having the benefit of little and often feed as oppose to once a day
 

Blue.

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Livestock Farmer
I’ve only ever used mine for ad lib feeding,had heifers on straw and used my own blend in them.
 

AftonShepherd

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Ayrshire
There's an 1800 here would probably be for sale, only used a couple of years as an ad lib lamb creep but still got all the bits. Transport from Scotland might kill it though and my boss is away for a fortnight for the sake of agreeing a price.
 

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