Complete diet in a bale.

Coldbrook

Member
Would it be possible to add rolled wheat/concentrates to rowed up grass pre baling so the bale silage would in theory be a complete diet. Have done it in the past with sugar beet nuts and clamp silage which worked fine but concerned would the wheat deteriorate.
 

Daniel Larn

Member
Would it be possible to add rolled wheat/concentrates to rowed up grass pre baling so the bale silage would in theory be a complete diet. Have done it in the past with sugar beet nuts and clamp silage which worked fine but concerned would the wheat deteriorate.
Visited a place in India where they were baling full TMR, although they were adding silage from a clamp mixing and shipping the bales out to smaller farms. I don't think you could include wheat in the swath so to speak.

Why do you want TMR in a bale? Just convenience?
 

Coldbrook

Member
Yes convenience more than anything. Possibly increase intakes. When we did it with sugar beet that was on the swath and it was picked up fine. Might try a few bales just worried about possible micotoxins.
 

farmerdan7618

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Seen it done with a lucerne based bale full of concentrates, can't for the life of me remember the company selling them, but were being used at the Barber's calf unit when they had a farm walk.
 

Daniel Larn

Member
The thought of vermin chewing through the bales fills me with horror also the amount of labour needed to put the concentrates out evenly on top of the swath would be very time consuming to me.
I hadn't considered the added vermin issue really, but it makes sense.

I agree on the mix in swath, I don't think that's possible without major ball ache. Again, for the plant in India it was all done after the fact and was very efficient.

Would people buy baled TMR over here, or does everyone have their own diet feeders?
 
The thought of vermin chewing through the bales fills me with horror also the amount of labour needed to put the concentrates out evenly on top of the swath would be very time consuming to me.
Easy with an auger feeder bucket
Scoop it up and run along the swath letting it out
My concern would be a lot would fall out of the grass going up the pickup reel
 

Hilly

Member
Its a good idea no doubt, needs an attachment on the baler to feed it into bale and not the last round of the bale , could have a big hopper on baler with regulator etc etc needs a manufacturer to make it happen properly .
 

Paul E

Member
Location
Boggy.
Probably will be for an experiment etc but long term ......... once the lad has slipped and been baled a few times he will get fed up and leave to be a builders labourer on million pounds a week :ROFLMAO:
Then he could dribble bags of cement into the mixer.
You'd think he'd work out how not to fall into that as well.o_O
 

jimmer

Member
Location
East Devon
Talking of baling up stuff , there are some good videos on YouTube of maize being baled up , from a selling point of view , if you could deliver 48 of them on a trailer and use one a day for example you would have no waste , and no need to re clamp etc
 

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