Feed blocks

[GTB]

I was quoted £936/t for crystallix and £452 for rumevite hi-energy hi-protein.

I think you need to shop around a bit...

 

[pgk]

They were the best prices others more was looking for 2t rumevite or 1t crystallix. Managed to buy oats at £100/t and barley at £120 so going with that as much as poss through 3 in 1's.

I think you need to shop around a bit...

 

[exmoor dave]

I was quoted £936/t for crystallix and £452 for rumevite hi-energy hi-protein.

That's about right for the green rumivite blocks, they've got silly expensive.
Last blocks we had were MVF equivalent, they were quite abit softer, so higher intakes, but cheaper by enough to be ok.

IMO rumivite blocks are the best, but just too expensive.

 

[exmoor dave]

No one mentioned three in one feeders.

I get the best results with blocks because weaker ewes get their share, but cost pushes me to feeding rolls. Perhaps threee in one feeders the best bet especially with early lambing flocks where pre lambing feeding costs likely to be low, but post lambing extremely high.

Last year we swapped from blocks & buckets over to 3-1 feeders. Very happy with the result.

What we were doing was feeding cake in the shed to our Feb flock then blocks/buckets post lambing for a few weeks.
Still cake in the shed, then 3-1 feeders with a 50/50 oat/ very high quality cake post lambing.

For our April lambing flock, we were feeding crystalyx buckets from about early/mid Feb, then adding blocks early March, then cake in the shed.
Changed now to 3-1 feeders out early Feb, with just oats, if there's abit of grass about they just get oats til housing late March.
If grass is tight we would add some cake to the mix or just house them (feed cake), don't usually feed them post lambing.

 

[GTB]

@exmoor dave How do you store the oats for the 3 in 1 feeders and what cake do you put through them, does it need to be in pellet form?

 

[exmoor dave]

@exmoor dave How do you store the oats for the 3 in 1 feeders and what cake do you put through them, does it need to be in pellet form?

Get oats in 6ton drops into one of my feed bins.

Cake I use both for shed feeding and in the 3-1 (mixed with oats) is called Mvf "prestige", it's a really good cake. It's a 5/6 mm nut, but the pieces are very short unlike normal ewe nuts, so it flows well with oats.
I tried it with some Mvf 18% nuts and they bridged too much.

Those feeders would get checked daily though as they are in the ewe &lamb fields.


If I was only checking every other day, but needed some protein in the mix I'd use protein pellets mixed with oats.

 

[andybk]

Get oats in 6ton drops into one of my feed bins.

Cake I use both for shed feeding and in the 3-1 (mixed with oats) is called Mvf "prestige", it's a really good cake. It's a 5/6 mm nut, but the pieces are very short unlike normal ewe nuts, so it flows well with oats.
I tried it with some Mvf 18% nuts and they bridged too much.

Those feeders would get checked daily though as they are in the ewe &lamb fields.


If I was only checking every other day, but needed some protein in the mix I'd use protein pellets mixed with oats.

is that a calf nut ?

 

[Bury the Trash]

nwf do an excellent (small,easy mixing ) blend pellet of around 35 ish percent protein ,has soya in it and will quite likely be cheaper than mvf .

 

[exmoor dave]

is that a calf nut ?

Nope a ewe nut,

Prestige plus ewe 20