Tomme
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Am thinking about making a clamp of this for next winter. Involves chopping straw and mixing with home n dry or maxxamum. Would like to hear from anyone who has tried and their expierences good or bad.
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blackwater boy
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Do u mind me asking why you would do this? Is it to try and raise the protein of the straw and use in diet feeder and save on the amount of time spent chopping it during the winter?
Tomme
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It would b to raise the protein really. I would feed sugar beet to balance for energy. Every 10 kgs of product raises the protien 1.4%. Plan would b to put it n feed passage and then put beet on top. Don't have a diet feeder.
blackwater boy
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Ad lib beet and straw? Finishing cattle yea? How much per tonne Is the maxamon stuff and what rate is recommended. I presume you would have to mix it with a diet feeder as you put it yes/no? I know 2 guys that did something like this last year but they were saying that applying the stuff was a bit of a mess and they were looking into putting it on or else some form of an acid with the applicator on the harvest or and straight into pit then.
Tomme
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The mix would be for feeding weanling bulls. Can't get silage ground this year.
I don't know the price of the maxxamum but it is cheaper than the home n dry. It's a two part mix where as the home n dry is just put on with a spinner on the clamp.
So looks like maxxamum is cheaper but more work.
I don't know the price of the maxxamum but it is cheaper than the home n dry. It's a two part mix where as the home n dry is just put on with a spinner on the clamp.
So looks like maxxamum is cheaper but more work.
Done alkalage before cant see it being bad to do,but I would try and buy straw that been baled by a chopper baler or run it through a straw chopper,it will help consolidate the clamp.
A warning though watch for the clamp tractor setting on fire,straw gets everywhere and can sit nicely on the exhaust manifold.
A warning though watch for the clamp tractor setting on fire,straw gets everywhere and can sit nicely on the exhaust manifold.
How did you fair out with this ? have a heap of corn straw the year with no home for and was thinking of doing something similar
An near neighbour did some in the spring to eek out his silage (put it through a roto grind 1st) it worked well,he also added crimped grain so it ended up being alkalage .
If it isn’t mouldy it should be fine.
