Ensiling chopped beet

[Buggi man]

Wondering if anyone has successfully clamped chopped beet in a water tight clamp. Was thinking of using pondliner right round, inside conc, panels. Cheers.

 

[Sheep]

Why does it need to be water tight?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Used to ensile a lot of pulp

 

[davidroberts30]

Ive done a bit with grass in summer
So has @jg123 with older silage I think

 

[Al R]

I’d mix with silage in the spring!
There is a serious amount of effluent - obviously as beet is 20% DM. The sugar effluent rots everything!
i’ve ag bagged a couple of thousand tonne before and it held it well for a year with little waste but christ there was some effluent - it was bagged during a spring heatwave so there was no added water

 

[Flat 10]

Why? How long are you wanting to store. They’ll clamp whole a long time?

 

[Buggi man]

Just need to feed half a ton a day ,clean , (without blackleg risk)& too much waste or mess. Even thinking about putting it in 1 ton bags.

 

[Flat 10]

Just need to feed half a ton a day ,clean , (without blackleg risk)& too much waste or mess. Even thinking about putting it in 1 ton bags.

Don’t most people use a root chopper bucket and do it each day ?

 

[JCB_JCR]

Harvest about an arce at a time. They're still growing in field so wont go off.

We harvest them tops included and feed whole through mixer wagon at about 5kg/head/day. Any mud seams to get rubbed off into a ball of silage that doesn't get eaten and just fork out of trough next morning.

 

[davidroberts30]

Just need to feed half a ton a day ,clean , (without blackleg risk)& too much waste or mess. Even thinking about putting it in 1 ton bags.

How much have you got?
I grow 7 acre,first 2 acre lifted was about 35t to the acre so I'll have in the region of 250ton
I got a 1t tanco washer chopper bucket and feed a scoop out morning and night
Lifted first 80t about a month ago and no sign of any deterioration
I'm lucky the guys lifting will pop back a few times as theres a few in the area that dont want to lift all in 1 go so they organise us to do a few hours at 1 then finish the day at another etc

 

[jg123]

Ive done a bit with grass in summer
So has @jg123 with older silage I think

Iv clamped beet for a few years, leave it stored as long as possible in the spring to dry out and then clamp before it goes off. Have clamped with fresh silage in layers, have clamped with old clamp silage (with good addtive) in layers and also clamped with soy hulls. I Dont notice any extra effluent if you layer approx 10t fresh grass with 1t beet (one trailer per one big bucket) soy hulls i mixed in a keenan 1t hulls to 4 or 5t beet, very very nice feed but expensive to buy the hulls. I always chop the beet small as they will be rubbery if clamped whole when fed. Have had clamped beet 6 months in grass and would guess they would last a lot longer

Pic of grass and beet and hulls and beet. Not sure how to post a vid?

 

[Buggi man]

Cheers, have clamped with hulls myself,so without a clamp now , just wanted to clamp pure beet in a neater way, to give about a ton a day, without mess and waste.

 

[jg123]

Cheers, have clamped with hulls myself,so without a clamp now , just wanted to clamp pure beet in a neater way, to give about a ton a day, without mess and waste.

Not sure what to suggest other than ag bag and a bit of juice. Ag bag and hulls/grass be ideal

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[Buggi man]

The idea was to conserve it for summer months, but have a trial run now,to see whats best.

 

[Buggi man]

Wish i could upscale like you to clamp size, but we're buying in ,hence Small quantities

 

[davidroberts30]

Cheers, have clamped with hulls myself,so without a clamp now , just wanted to clamp pure beet in a neater way, to give about a ton a day, without mess and waste.

make sure they chopped especially if in silage
the silage heats and makes while cooking the beet
the beet then go soft and rubbery and slimy and if whole the beasts try to swallow them and choke
got the tshirt

 

[Celt83]

What would be a good feeding rate for growing/store cattle?

We could do with something to buffer the silage out a bit with. Trying to see if fodderbeet would be viable.

 

[davidroberts30]

What would be a good feeding rate for growing/store cattle?

We could do with something to buffer the silage out a bit with. Trying to see if fodder beet would be viable.

I've got my finishers up to about 17kgs now
it will replace silage near kilo for kilo

 

[Celt83]

I've got my finishers up to about 17kgs now
it will replace silage near kilo for kilo

Cheers Dai!

Do you need to gradually build them up to it, and do they sh!t through an eye of a needle?

 

[davidroberts30]

Cheers Dai!

Do you need to gradually build them up to it, and do they sh!t through an eye of a needle?

yeah took me 4 weeks to get them up there
dont sh!t any worse than normal