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.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.
If you try it, I'd love to know how you got on.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.
I hadn't considered the added vermin issue really, but it makes sense.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 bucketThe 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.
There was someone in farmers weekly a long time ago who had done that. Think he used a sprayer nozzle to spread it evenly on the swathBefore I had a molasses tank I always thought it would be a good idea to run up the rows of grass with an ibc of the stuff trickling out.
Contractor was never keen sadly.
No get the lad to stand on the baler with a few bags and trickle some out as you go. Be alrightIts 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 .
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 weekNo get the lad to stand on the baler with a few bags and trickle some out as you go. Be alright
Then he could dribble bags of cement into the mixer.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
I didn't know molasses worked for ED, most people use Viagra. Although I shouldn't think that would help the cattle much!There's a video on Youtube about adding molasses to bales -search "ED MAN"