Hope everyone is enjoying the good weather. Looking at buying a diet feeder for 280 cows along with 80 calves and 80 in calf heifers. Just wondering what size people would recommend and what extras are worth the money? Or any other tips you may have! Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
Diet feeder sizes and specs
- Thread starter tomtomtom
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rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
What group sizes do you have and how many different rations do you want to feed?
Was on a farm yesterday doing compact feeding and he had a 20m3 horizontal auger machine to feed about 140 in the milking group.
Was on a farm yesterday doing compact feeding and he had a 20m3 horizontal auger machine to feed about 140 in the milking group.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
You will start a riot mentioning the k word on here !
they are in same club as landorver defeders 
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Durry cows
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- Location
- Derbyshire
What prices are people talking then, been looking at a 20-22 cube abbey for coming winter..
We bought a 10yr old bvl 20cu twin tub last yr, been good so far. Tidy machine and allows us to do one mix per day for 150-60 cows, will be traded in as herd size increases as doing one mix per day saves us alot of time.
We priced a few machines up last yr, all 24cu tandem axel all around 34k
We had a keenan 170 before, good feeder and pretty reliable but not suited to compact feeding
If I were buying a new tub feeder I'd go for trioliet, bvl, supreme or shelbourne
New horizontal auger I'd say there all pretty much as good as each other
We priced a few machines up last yr, all 24cu tandem axel all around 34k
We had a keenan 170 before, good feeder and pretty reliable but not suited to compact feeding
If I were buying a new tub feeder I'd go for trioliet, bvl, supreme or shelbourne
New horizontal auger I'd say there all pretty much as good as each other
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Abbey are good but, cu m can be misleading we have a 21cu m but it doesnt hold as much as our previous conner 21
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Bro in law had a bvl from dave eaton tractors, wont be far from you ?
Hes v pleased so far
Group sizes would vary during the year but a minimum of 50 and max of 280 while still milking.
Torn between the paddle and the verticle augar also
I wouldn't have another paddle mixer after having a vertical auger
buffalo_soldier
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- cumbria
My quote for a 20 cube Keenan was over £40k before trade in.
And my trade in wasn't worth a lot.
.And my trade in wasn't worth a lot
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Durry cows
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Abbey come in bit cheaper around 25 for 20 cube
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
What happened in previous years is nonsensical when you think about it , hundreds nay thousands of sheds were put up leaving a reliance on a wagon to feed them , how many now wish they'd done it differently to allow for a simpler way of feeding up
Any thing associated with Alltech is never going to be cheap.My quote for a 20 cube Keenan was over £40k before trade in
And my trade in wasn't worth a lot
Keenan used to say in jest,"If you have a lot of money we will take most of it,a little money all of it!" .Now it seems they will take all of it if you have a lot!
- Location
- Hampshire
Talk to Richard at RS Agri http://www.rsagri.com/ He's forgotten more about diet feeders than the rest of us know!
Jimmer has a really good point, how do you feed cows currently? What sort of yield? Id love to go back to feeding cows every other day or a couple of times a week simply because it's less work and wear and tear on tackle
But having a diet feeder gives us so much flexibility in regards to what we can feed and buy in so we'd never manage without one now
Currently feeding with a tractor and shear grab. For the year that is in it we are looking at incorporating more into the diet as we are low in silage.
ollie989898
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Buy the biggest bugger that will fit in your buildings. One hit feeding of the main herd and use the milking leftovers to feed someone else.
Your time is way more expensive than any amount of metal. All of you should look at finding ways of doing things faster and more easily this winter. Even a quarter of an hour a day soon adds up. Buy a stopwatch and time how long stuff takes.
Your time is way more expensive than any amount of metal. All of you should look at finding ways of doing things faster and more easily this winter. Even a quarter of an hour a day soon adds up. Buy a stopwatch and time how long stuff takes.
Kingofgrass
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Had a new struatmann feeder in January with stepped augers very pleased with it,bout a 6months waiting list tho