Slats and baled silage

[jerseycowsman]

Has anyone ever fed baled silage along a feed barrier In a fully slatted shed? I’m worried they’ll drag it in and onto the slats and block them up

 

[Wishful Thinker]

What is your feed barrier?
Plain rail yea they will. Diagonal bars etc seem to get away ok

 

[yin ewe]

Has anyone ever fed baled silage feed barrier In a fully slatted shed? I’m worried they’ll drag it in and onto the slats and block them up

Used to feed dry cows on slats with cubicles, they were fine when they were tight for feed space but when they had more room they pulled a lot in and basically bedded themselves, put in diagonal feed rails and that sorted the problem right away.

 

[24/7 farming]

We feed bales along an open barrier, 2 6" timber rails at bottom and 4" round bar across top, all bales chopped, never any issues so long as u dont put the bales so close that the stuff falls in directly off the bale.
Did end up wit a few not chopped bales last year and went in once a week or so and collected anything that was gathering

 

[Beef farmer]

Has anyone ever fed baled silage along a feed barrier In a fully slatted shed? I’m worried they’ll drag it in and onto the slats and block them up

Has yours got 18inches next to the barrier thats not over the tank?

 

[MickyMook]

Has yours got 18inches next to the barrier thats not over the tank?

What he said - this basically becomes a fully bedded lying spot when I feed baled silage to my ones through the open barrier. Grand if you have diagonal barriers, locking yokes or tombstone barriers.

 

[jerseycowsman]

Has yours got 18inches next to the barrier thats not over the tank?

The whole footprint of the shed is the tank and slats

 

[Spudley]

We do a lot of bales to feed in the autumn, the feed passage has concrete shuttered panels topped by a feed rail. They do pull some silage out but we scrape the shed twice a day and it doesn't seem to block up.

 

[dairydurham]

We do a lot of bales to feed in the autumn, the feed passage has concrete shuttered panels topped by a feed rail. They do pull some silage out but we scrape the shed twice a day and it doesn't seem to block up.

What about tanking the slurry out with lumps of straggly baled silage to fudge the job up, definetley no good for dribbler & macerator

 

[Jdunn55]

What about tanking the slurry out with lumps of straggly baled silage to fudge the job up, definetley no good for dribbler & macerator

Having spent a day every week for pretty much an entire year last year with a trailing shoe, I will assure that the silage will get caught around the macerator, it will plug the tubes up and, whoever is spreading it will be swearing and calling it all the names under the sun. But tbh, it's not much better with a splash plate either. Trailing shoe would get clogged up twice daily if not more, the splash plate would be once maybe twice per day

 

[som farmer]

the worst thing in spreaders are the big bonning like ones, with the old barrel spreaders, to much string etc, and someone had to cut it out, which in turn makes people not leaving string/net about. Drives me nuts to see string chucked down, and pushed into the pit. Costs more to agitate, usually someone else stirring. The worst i saw, we found a calf, pretty well just the skin wrapped around the stirrer, f bull, we guessed he was in there, anyway all off, the lad who was helping us, pushed it straight back in the pit with the scraper !, we watched, didn't think he would push it in, in excuse, he was a heavy user of grass, and he didn't last long, but.