Cattle crapping in feed

[digger64]

As per title I am interested in any ideas or feed fence designs that prevent or reduce soiling of feed. I seem to waste more than I'm happy with due to cattle crapping or in the case of heifers, urinating in troughs. Intakes are also reduced as a result. I clean troughs daily and wondered what others did to prevent it. Pictures please [emoji846]

You could securely chain a telegraph pole to the top rail of a feed fence to keep their backends away but allow their heads to feed underneath and the scraper ,for frost free time put the water tank outside with hole for their heads to drink and a similar arrangement

 

[Princess Pooper]

We've just redone our feed troughs; taken away steel hanging troughs and replaced them with a concrete pad down the centre of the shed. We've also put a 4" concrete panel on the pen side of the feed barrier which has pushed animals a bit further in to the pens when they're eating. It has definitely had an effect on the cattle crapping and peeing in the feed, not eliminated it completely though. In the cow shed we've put the water troughs on concrete plinths so the animals have to step up to drink; that has stopped the crapping completely but has become a target for the contractors when mucking out .

not very badger proof though, unless the shed is shut up at night with no gap under all doors.... sadly having to think of this all the time now.

 

[foxbox]

not very badger proof though, unless the shed is shut up at night with no gap under all doors.... sadly having to think of this all the time now.

Yep, same here. We're going for the badger proof yard rather than badger proof trough approach. The troughs were easy to access too but also had a home for smaller vermin underneath them so this is a step forward for us. The shed itself can be badger proofed fairly easily, we've another which is less easy though so we'll probably end up doing the perimeter of the yard instead.