mixing concentrate's with silage

[I thats it]

Anyone doing this, this year? I'm planning first cut in 10-14 days, was fancying rolled barley but feed rep says use wheat feed pellets. Thoughts?

 

[pappuller]

Anyone doing this, this year? I'm planning first cut in 10-14 days, was fancying rolled barley but feed rep says use wheat feed pellets. Thoughts?

@Beef farmer

 

[O'Reilly]

We're having a go with wheat feed pellets, as a forage extender as much as anything. Think we'll have enough silage for winter, but not if we runbout of grass in July like last year

 

[rusty]

Just mixed in wheat feed meal with 200 tonnes of brewers grains.
Wheat feed currently good value around £120/t for meal but only 17t in an artic load. On a £/t d.m. It was marginally cheaper than the grains.

 

[organicguy]

Mixing in rolled wheat, have used barley, or sugar beet. All work fine unless silage becomes too dry.

 

[O'Reilly]

Just mixed in wheat feed meal with 200 tonnes of brewers grains.
Wheat feed currently good value around £120/t for meal but only 17t in an artic load. On a £/t d.m. It was marginally cheaper than the grains.

Brewers grains got cheaper then?

 

[buffalo_soldier]

I agree with the rep. Wheat feed would be a better choice.
Max 10% inclusion.
Aim for a 23-25% DM silage.

 

[I thats it]

I was wondering how important it would be to make sure the silage wasn't to dry. I do have a fear of silage effluent and so often like it too be dry

 

[Grassman247]

I layer 800 ton of Brewers grains in the first cut, works superbly well and saves changing to bucket when we are busy in winter

 

[rusty]

Brewers grains got cheaper then?

£33/t for the grains £117 for the wheat feed.

 

[Blue.]

I prefer to buy circa 75% or so on contract so you can control feed rate and cash flow.

I’ve pitted grains in the past but found half your tonnage had gone down the drain,I don’t feed grains anymore due wet loads and inconsistent supply.

 

[O'Reilly]

£33/t for the grains £117 for the wheat feed.

Yes, they are cheaper than I thought. Thank you.

 

[ollie989898]

Should work ok but could soon get expensive if you have a tommy-twothumbs on the loader who gets 800kg of rapemeal in the wagon one day and only 200kg the next.

Need to be layered carefully mind. If not done right you will never see something go mouldy as fast as wheatfeed!!

 

[I thats it]

I was planning on just mixing a bucket full tipped on every load of grass that comes in, aim to mix roughly 2kg per head per day for milking cows through winter. Then pop second cut on the top, that can go to youngstock

 

[I thats it]

just feed out with the block cutter

 

[Blue.]

We did it 1988,was a bit hit and miss as you don’t know how many loads your going to get.

I was planning on just mixing a bucket full tipped on every load of grass that comes in, aim to mix roughly 2kg per head per day for milking cows through winter. Then pop second cut on the top, that can go to youngstock

 

[O'Reilly]

I layer 800 ton of Brewers grains in the first cut, works superbly well and saves changing to bucket when we are busy in winter

Must take a while to deliver that tonnage? Do you have it tipped while silaging, or stockpile it beforehand? If so, how long can you leave it open for?
Thanks

 

[ridger]

I know a chap over near Crediton who ensiled all there winter feed concrete in with the maize and grass silage. There was not much saving in per ton bought, in this instance. But the bigger set saving was when feeding out no changing over buckets timesaved etc, the diet was already set, so when the manager went home to NZ for a month there was not much that could go wrong.

Surely it would ferment and be a different feed coming out?

 

[Grassman247]

Must take a while to deliver that tonnage? Do you have it tipped while silaging, or stockpile it beforehand? If so, how long can you leave it open for?
Thanks

It’s only open 2 days, it’s tipped in the next door pit, it’s all being moved on Monday and a few others have private messaged me about it so I’ll take some pics and put them on here

 

[Durry cows]

Made a seperate grains pit this time have put under silage which works well but it takes some organising timing it with silage and wanted more consistency at feedout