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Jdunn55

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Can you feed the bend on parlour? Does the auger manage the dusty element of the blend?
I shall find out!
I know it's been fed in the past and seemed to cope ok, can always add some more molasses to stick it together a bit more and keep the dust down if need be
Only ordered 6t this time so I can run a bit of a test rather than order 15t and end up with a mess!
 

Jdunn55

Member
Does the supplier give you a full breakdown of ingredients?

Very few Dairy compounds don't contain PKE

And very few that are exactly the same from batch to batch.
Yes, not the percentages but will list all ingredients in order of largest to smallest % havent fed pke since my first load of cake in march

This is a custom blend though so I know exactly how much of what is going into it
 
we have heard
£43/ton out of Heineken in Manchester at least 25%moisture. Which makes it £147/ton cake equivalent. Should be getting it cheaper as we have a load a week all year round.
cant imagine you will be on that price much longer. What have you been quoted for winter? im hearing folk paying £49-50
 

Jdunn55

Member
A waste of money.


My nutritionist worked out it was better to buy butter off the shelf from Tesco and melt it and put it in your bulk than it was to feed a c16 fat to your cows
Another feed rep who has only been doing it for 18 months has said he hasn't sold a single bag of protected fat since he started as the price is just too expensive
Theres a reason volac are pushing it via advertising, they cant shift it!
 
We have been feeding blends in the parlour since milk quota arrived. So luckily we never had bse 👍
We fed home mixed blends around that time based on guidance from a MMB advisor - She suggested that we overcome our prejucices and use mbm in all the rations including the calves !

Resulting in every single heifer calf which had that feed going down with BSE about 4 years later - Lost 35% of our milkers to it.
 

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