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Anyone using this, am interested but have heard mixed reports about it compared to caustic treated wheat. Seems a lot less hassle and safer than caustic soda. Does it feed as good as they claim.
We were persuaded to try it after 2 years of sucessfully using 'home and dry'. We found that in comparison it wasnt as easy to use as the H&D as it has 2 elements that need to be well mixed for it to work rather than being premixed as a pellet. We found it gummed up the roller mill meaning we had to stop and clean it out twice on 250 tonnes. It was cheaper than H&D but I haave gone back to H&D and wouldnt be tempted to use the maxamon again.[/
At the same time same as we do with the home and dry - add required amount to a bucket of grain as it is tipped into crimper hopperDid you bruised before or after you treated the grain?
It preserves damp grain.What's the advantages to just adding feed urea to your ration?
I see so more a storage solutionIt preserves damp grain.
When i asked them about it Mole valley reckoned maxxamon was for cattle, rather than sheep.whats Palatability like for sheep with either maxxamon or H+D , does it need to fed as part of ration to get them to eat it ? we have treated with urea and had to be mixed with other things to get them to eat it , presume its sticky and wont go through a 3 in 1 ,thought about feed a few lambs at grass with it through winter
whats Palatability like for sheep with either maxxamon or H+D , does it need to fed as part of ration to get them to eat it ? we have treated with urea and had to be mixed with other things to get them to eat it , presume its sticky and wont go through a 3 in 1 ,thought about feed a few lambs at grass with it through winter
thanks , i have a lot of zwartbles x char lambs born may im going to store till christmas and push them on after , (let dust settle after oct ) . thought it might be a good excercise to have a go with alkagrain instead of creep pellets , only problem is grain will prob be nearer 14% , will ring MVF tomorrow see if they stock it . how much a bag is it ?It’s not sticky at all, as you’re not adding liquid. It runs as well as 16-18% Barley would ime. Palatability seems OK, it doesn’t take any longer to get sheep onto it as it does to get them onto straight Barley.
I housed some sheep to finish last Autumn, and the only big feeder I have is a 3-in-1. I started them on a mix of whole Barley and lamb creep pellets, with it shut down quite tight, alongside ad-lib haylage. Started taking it slowly, then I gradually opened it up. Intakes increased, then I lost several and knocked a bunch more for six.
After good experience of using it in 2012, I order some H&Dry and treated some barley off the heap. Once it had done 10 days, I filled the 3-in-1, mixed off with the remaining pellets for a day or two. Once on just Alkagrain, intakes increased by a good 30% over the mix, where the creep pellets were obviously slowing it down, lamb performance took off and there were no more losses. Later groups came straight in and onto ad-lib Alkagrain, with no ill effect.
I made a mental note to never again try ad-libbing lambs on any cereal mix that didn’t involve Alkagrain. Very different to trying to treat your own in the cheap by mixing urea pellets in.
thanks , i have a lot of zwartbles x char lambs born may im going to store till christmas and push them on after , (let dust settle after oct ) . thought it might be a good excercise to have a go with alkagrain instead of creep pellets , only problem is grain will prob be nearer 14% , will ring MVF tomorrow see if they stock it . how much a bag is it ?
Ive got a few bags spare pm if youre inerested.thanks , i have a lot of zwartbles x char lambs born may im going to store till christmas and push them on after , (let dust settle after oct ) . thought it might be a good excercise to have a go with alkagrain instead of creep pellets , only problem is grain will prob be nearer 14% , will ring MVF tomorrow see if they stock it . how much a bag is it ?