Feeding square bale silage then cattle waste it

[orbost]

How can I stop my cattle pulling out the Silage out of feeder and dropping it on the floor . With square or round bales I am not having any waste until I feed it and there just pull it out of feeder or feed fence and drop it . Why do they do this ?

 

[Wellytrack]

Chopped?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Square bales we leave 1 string on for a start then cut it when they’ve made a good effort on the bale

 

[davidroberts30]

Tombstone feeder?

 

[orbost]

I thought about a Tombstone feeder might get some prices . Leaving one string on could help

 

[orbost]

Going to look at agbags so silage will be chopped and the price of wrap keeps going up

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Are they on add lib , if you restrict them a little they would be more interested in eating it

 

[Princess Pooper]

We get this problem on the feed trough in our loose yard (diagonal bars). We fork it up twice a day before they have spoiled it too much.

 

[milkloss]

Like above.... feed less and more often or chop it so they can't drag it.

 

[Forever Fendt]

They don't waste any with self locking yokes and they don't need to be fastened in to prevent wastage

 

[betweenthelines]

We used to have big nets that would fit over a ring feeder so that the animals would have to pull the forage through the net. But I have no idea were we got them-sorry

 

[Sid]

We used to have big nets that would fit over a ring feeder so that the animals would have to pull the forage through the net. But I have no idea were we got them-sorry

Sounds like forced starvation to me.

Want cattle to have good intakes of forage not restricted.

 

[Dog Bowl]

Make silage that is less stemmy and more leafy. They then cannot pull the silage out so easily. Then the additional bonus is your also making better quality forage