Snackers

[GTB]

No. My mates dad used to too... he would carry an old lick bucket with him to dish it out. He would also haul the snacker out to the hill, then scoop it empty to fill the calf creep feeder

LOL I do that too. It's much quicker than taking a loader with a bucketful of feed on rough tracks.

 

[tr250]

How many sheep do you recon to have per pile? Dad has just bought a swaledale on big wheels because he can't carry bags anymore

 

[Lazy Eric]

We have a Swaledale one, well made, it’s one with the big dumper wheels on, go over any ground.

 

[Nithsdale]

LOL I do that too. It's much quicker than taking a loader with a bucketful of feed on rough tracks.

Just load the trailer with bags

Scooping out the last in the bottom would annoy me, you must climb in?

I've got that many sheep running we can't use the creep feeder outside

 

[Nithsdale]

How many sheep do you recon to have per pile? Dad has just bought a swaledale on big wheels because he can't carry bags anymore

Depends how much feed you are putting out... the feed I'm using the heaps (on biggest setting) are only 3lb, so 1lb/hd means 3 ewes per heap. Start feeding tomorrow morning on 1/2lb so it'll be 6 ewes per heap.

 

[GTB]

Just load the trailer with bags

Scooping out the last in the bottom would annoy me, you must climb in?

I've got that many sheep running we can't use the creep feeder outside

Bags? We can load the snacker straight from the bulk bin in seconds (literally). Why would I want to mess around with bags?

 

[Nithsdale]

Bags? We can load the snacker straight from the bulk bin in seconds (literally). Why would I want to mess around with bags?

You can fill bags like that too... you just need to be REALLY skilled with the slide to shut it off before the bag overflows

 

[GTB]

You can fill bags like that too... you just need to be REALLY skilled with the slide to shut it off before the bag overflows

Fudge that! Life's too short!

 

[hally]

Where do you get bags nowadays, we have used bulk for so long they are like rocking horse sh*t around here.

 

[exmoor tom]

Chapman way better than logic. Well build and cheaper

 

[GTB]

Where do you get bags nowadays, we have used bulk for so long they are like rocking horse sh*t around here.

We have bags occasionally when HJ Lea Oakes 'forget' to deliver bulk on time!

 

[Nithsdale]

Where do you get bags nowadays, we have used bulk for so long they are like rocking horse sh*t around here.

Plastic woven grass seed bags

Our (sadly now retired) feed rep used to bring us Lupin sacks if we asked.

 

[Timbo]

Rob Astley trailers if you want the drum type. Excellant.

 

[Al R]

How many sheep do you recon to have per pile? Dad has just bought a swaledale on big wheels because he can't carry bags anymore

We do 1lb per drop, 100 ewes in a field, 100 drops and onto the next one. I don’t think I could be without the counter on the logic
Doing 7-8kmh gives you a distance between drops so 2 ewes can eat end on from each other’s piles.

 

[Al R]

I know someone who has a snacker for sale that’s only done a few months work if that as they’ve gone out of sheep. He said to me it wasn’t a logic like I had as he knew he only had 1 season left in sheep he bought a cheaper snacker. PM me if you want his number, it’s based near Haverfordwest

 

[GTB]

Rob Astley trailers if you want the drum type. Excellant.

Took over a year to get a VAT receipt from him years ago. I'd never deal with him again though tbf the snacker was good enough.

 

[Nithsdale]

Rob Astley trailers if you want the drum type. Excellant.

They are the generic galvanized ones you see on Ebay - Wessex and others sell them too. They are all identical. Quite a small hopper for its rated capacity, neighbour has one - I figured out I couldn't feed my hill ewes in one go with it, would have had to take extra bags on the bike

 

[tr250]

We do 1lb per drop, 100 ewes in a field, 100 drops and onto the next one. I don’t think I could be without the counter on the logic
Doing 7-8kmh gives you a distance between drops so 2 ewes can eat end on from each other’s piles.

I was thinking of only doing 25 heaps for 100 ewes

 

[exmoor dave]

Chapman way better than logic. Well build and cheaper

Got to save those pennies tom........ those Apres ski drinks won't pay for themselves

 

[TL100]

They are the generic galvanized ones you see on Ebay - Wessex and others sell them too. They are all identical. Quite a small hopper for its rated capacity, neighbour has one - I figured out I couldn't feed my hill ewes in one go with it, would have had to take extra bags on the bike

Rob Astley trailers make their own snackers, the ones you see on eBay are polish copies. Rob Astley will can also put a shoot for filling buckets on theirs.

CLH looks like the best of the plastic hopper types. I'm still on filling bags but they are wearing a bit thin with me, especially when I don' take the trailer and bungee them on the racks. You can guarantee one will fall off at the worst possible moment