Clamping concentrates

[jimmer]

Those with experience
What products , inclusion rates , and protocols please

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Zero experience but the cash flow consequence put me off.

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[organicguy]

Rolled barley, home grown 1kg a cow, no problem

 

[Beef farmer]

Zero experience but the cash flow consequence put me off.

I

On GP feeds web site at the bottom there is a caption, that they will arrange finance if you so wished, so depends on what you feel you could save by clamping.

@jimmer there are people clamping crushed barley, rape meal and sugar beet with silage. Either self feed it or it's all stored ready for a feed box

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

How do you deal with the rats? That’s rodents not concentrate salesmen by the way.

 

[Beef farmer]

How do you deal with the rats? That’s rodents not concentrate salesmen by the way.

No different to maize or WC

 

[pappuller]

On GP feeds web site at the bottom there is a caption, that they will arrange finance if you so wished, so depends on what you feel you could save by clamping.

@jimmer there are people clamping crushed barley, rape meal and sugar beet with silage. Either self feed it or it's all stored ready for a feed box

Self feed [emoji23] [emoji23] so 70s, before you were born boy.

 

[Grassman247]

Those with experience
What products , inclusion rates , and protocols please

I pit 1200ton of brewers grains every year, always sandwich it between silage layers, works out about 5kg a cow

We take it over weekends and bank holidays when others won’t in spring, price is usually better that way

Get it pitted and well sheeted and then re open it and move it again at silage time

 

[Beef farmer]

What would happen if you mixed urea in with grass silage? @Cows 'n grass mixed it with WC I think.

 

[jimmer]

Rolled barley, home grown 1kg a cow, no problem

How do you work out how much to put on at ensiling ?
I'm feeding 4kg of wheat , not sure 1kg would touch the sides

 

[Cows 'n grass]

What would happen if you mixed urea in with grass silage? @Cows 'n grass mixed it with WC I think.

I do always clamp WC or maize with urea at the very well calculated rate of one bag per trailer load. It ups the protein about 3%.

 

[dinderleat]

Could you clamp maxomom treated with grass silage?

 

[Beef farmer]

How do you work out how much to put on at ensiling ?
I'm feeding 4kg of wheat , not sure 1kg would touch the sides

4kg and maybe 40kg silage? So clamp 10% wheat.

 

[jimmer]

 

[jimmer]

This is clamped at 10 percent , was really impressed at mix consistency across the face
Can't remember if it was wheat feed pellets or wheat gluten

 

[jimmer]

Basically I'm fed up with things made of metal giving me grief
The less moving parts the better
Thinking a 8ft shear grab on a handler and cake in the parlour

 

[Beef farmer]

This is clamped at 10 percent , was really impressed at mix consistency across the face
Can't remember if it was wheat feed pellets or wheat gluten

Who's was it?

8% Crushed wheat
3% Rape meal
5% Sugar beet

84% silage

Cake in parlour to balance the act

 

[Beef farmer]

Basically I'm fed up with things made of metal giving me grief
The less moving parts the better
Thinking a 8ft shear grab on a handler and cake in the parlour

Didn't take long

 

[dinderleat]

Basically I'm fed up with things made of metal giving me grief
The less moving parts the better
Thinking a 8ft shear grab on a handler and cake in the parlour

That 8ft shear grab will cost alot more than that bit of metal you bought

 

[jimmer]

That 8ft shear grab will cost alot more than that bit of metal you bought

Thinking of welding two 4 footers together