livestock 1
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I use promol 40 (molasses and urea) but struggle to get them to drink enough so I’ve been tipping some hi pro soya into it.
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Beef farmers
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- Lancashire
What how do you feed this
livestock 1
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Good question. When I started with it I was advised that they would take it ad-lib but they wouldn’t drink enough of it. So I filled some feeders up with it had the ibc on the telehandler and opened the tap then tipped a bucketful of hipro soya in amongst it. Stirred it up a bit and they go for it
livestock 1
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Was on with grains but it’s dear now
livestock 1
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Brewers grains
haymaker80
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- Location
- Stafford
Been quoted 506 for a ton of general purpose cattle booster feedblocks. Anyone else priced any up recently?
livestock 1
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It’s about where they are I don’t think you will get them for much less.
You must be wealthy to buy cattle blocks
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Mix your own
protein going up
Have a job, im 100%grassland. What would be in a good homemix? I see someone posted barley and protein pellets but its a heck of job so stop them blowing on barley in a creep feeder. 16% grower/fattening nut works better for storing and feeding usually
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Oats look like they are going to be very cheap this time. Feed them whole to young cattle save the work of rolling them.
Yeah think i will stick with a nut and price it up nxt month when feeding starts. I like mixes but they are murder to get out of the bin and feeding straight corn and losing a beast just ruins any savings. Been there got the t-shirt
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Oats could well end up sub £100 if they all get harvested there’s so many been grown. Mix some with a few nuts?
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I’m 100% grass (grown some spring barley for the first time this year) I still mix my own...I’m not paying someone to make a nut that’s full of kit kats
livestock 1
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Biscuit meal or confectionary mix is good was around £160 a tonne
pine_guy
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- North Cumbria
I used some in winter while grain was dear, but when barley is sub £130 it’s far too dear. I can understand the simplicity of nuts in hoppers, but feeding grain to sheep is simple, introduce it slowly over a week and mix it with some protein (distillers or soya for example) some fibre (sugar beet pulp or soya hulls) to make a ration/balanced feed and off you go. And you don’t even need to roll the grain for sheep.
Plenty of literature on the AHDB website on doing it and a good excel
Spreadsheet to work out a ration.
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Oh and a mix of the above ingredients would analyse way better than any pellet you buy with wheat feed and other fillers in it. Or at least the performance of what you feed it to will be better.
Oh don’t forget some minerals.
Oh don’t forget some minerals.
livestock 1
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I’ve fed barley sugarbeet pellets distillers grains and soya in a ration with success. Whole barley as you say. Better than cake cheaper too. Finding places to tip it and mix it here is the hard part
livestock 1
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Oats can be used instead of sugarbeet pellets if they are cheaper