Feeding a Beef Ration In The Field

[Cab-over Pete]

Aye up,

I have a customer who feeds a few thousand cattle to slaughter every year. They’re all in all winter obviously, and he has enough grassland to get many out over February to October, but still has several hundred inside.

He’s considering turning out more than the grass can support and supplementing them every day with a food by-product ration, bread, crisps etc mixed with silage. The cost of bedding them is the driver behind his decision.

He’s asked if it would be possible to get it through a lime spreader with the discs taken off, to just put small piles of it around the field at different spots each day.

I don’t think the ration will run down to the belt on a V shape body, especially as quite a bit of roadwork and bumping down tracks will be involved, settling the ration down tight.

I think he needs a moving floor with a wide rear door and vertical sides.

He wants it to have weigh cells to accurately feed out and carry about 3-4 tonnes of feed.

Any ideas?

Cheers, Pete.

 

[Henarar]

old feed waggon with weigh cells

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Forgot to mention, he does have a TMR feeder but that is already busy enough and too heavy and expensive for going through gateways every day.

 

[tr250]

Forgot to mention, he does have a TMR feeder but that is already busy enough and too heavy and expensive for going through gateways every day.

An old type forage box type feeder maybe. But in my opinion it won’t work. He needs troughs and hard standing. I know a dealer that has feed fences out in fields and feeds waste products.
we have a couple of fields that they can run in and eat/lay inside and we shut them in when it’s wet but it makes a mess of the field

 

[Werzle]

Aye up,

I have a customer who feeds a few thousand cattle to slaughter every year. They’re all in all winter obviously, and he has enough grassland to get many out over February to October, but still has several hundred inside.

He’s considering turning out more than the grass can support and supplementing them every day with a food by-product ration, bread, crisps etc mixed with silage. The cost of bedding them is the driver behind his decision.

He’s asked if it would be possible to get it through a lime spreader with the discs taken off, to just put small piles of it around the field at different spots each day.

I don’t think the ration will run down to the belt on a V shape body, especially as quite a bit of roadwork and bumping down tracks will be involved, settling the ration down tight.

I think he needs a moving floor with a wide rear door and vertical sides.

He wants it to have weigh cells to accurately feed out and carry about 3-4 tonnes of feed.

Any ideas?

Cheers, Pete.

Feeder trailers and weigh the feed in using the loadall or feeder, anything else is just creating work imo. Sounds like he is going down the feedlot look!

 

[Nearly]

an older 14 cube Keenan or similar will do it.

a row of bunker feeders down the dry end of the field with gateposts brayed into the ground to chain them to.

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It won't be a cheap job.

 

[Rossymons]

If he's looking to save on bedding this year then consider alternative bedding.

For that number and starting from scratch the infrastructure he would need to do the job without cattle escaping every 5 minutes could be frightening. Plus the reseeding costs too.

 

[Ribble]

I've seen someone do an outdoor moving feedlot for several hundred head using a hot wire, and a portable feed trough.

The portable trough system is 50 gallon blue plastic drums cut in half, and made into a train dragged behind a quad.

 

[Sharpy]

Small rear discharge dung spreader with horizontal beaters and a hood, plenty used to be used for feeding in feed passages.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

He’s thinking of leaving little piles in the field, similar to what a sheep snacker leaves.

 

[Werzle]

I have seen cattle fed with a snacker but they were being fed a few nuts. Wastage is the biggest problem as the next pile is always better than the first so they walk over and spoil a fair bit

 

[Limcrazy]

Tried diet feeding outside on ground behind a hot wire. Wasn't any good they pushed it away, trampled it in and wasted more than they ate. Went back to filling trailer feeders.

 

[farmer pickles]

Aye up,

I have a customer who feeds a few thousand cattle to slaughter every year. They’re all in all winter obviously, and he has enough grassland to get many out over February to October, but still has several hundred inside.

He’s considering turning out more than the grass can support and supplementing them every day with a food by-product ration, bread, crisps etc mixed with silage. The cost of bedding them is the driver behind his decision.

He’s asked if it would be possible to get it through a lime spreader with the discs taken off, to just put small piles of it around the field at different spots each day.

I don’t think the ration will run down to the belt on a V shape body, especially as quite a bit of roadwork and bumping down tracks will be involved, settling the ration down tight.

I think he needs a moving floor with a wide rear door and vertical sides.

He wants it to have weigh cells to accurately feed out and carry about 3-4 tonnes of feed.

Any ideas?

Cheers, Pete.

I use a few ad lib feeders to finish cattle off grass. They carry about 4 tons each.

 

[betweenthelines]

Didn't they used to do a rotaspreader conversion for feeding cattle? A steel plate bolted to the side so all the feed was flung against it and dropped to the ground.

 

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[michael N123]

Didn't they used to do a rotaspreader conversion for feeding cattle? A steel plate bolted to the side so all the feed was flung against it and dropped to the ground.

Marshall did I seen one for sale not that long ago

 

[michael N123]

If your handy with a welder could someone not codge a slurry tanker axle and floatations onto the back of a Keenan(not underneath) feeder it wouldn’t actual be that long and it won’t be very high either

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I would not bother with silage ,just Feed byproducts add lib with grass in buckers , cattle will fatten like he never seen

 

[spin cycle]

pig feeder type wagon with auger......or one of these bad boys

 

[Kiwi Pete]

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