Stock feed
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choochter
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
I'm only feeding small numbers with a mix of spuds and carrots mainly and some swedes but don't feed them dirty. Will wash the tatties if too dirty after lifting and turn the carrots on a concrete floor to shake the soil off.
Think a wee bit of soil is OK but not too much. Stones I wouldn't want in their grub at all.
Think a wee bit of soil is OK but not too much. Stones I wouldn't want in their grub at all.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Cattle won’t gain weight eating stones and soil...get them washed next time
Philip Watkins
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- Location
- Back in Shropshire
They won't eat the stones, they just suck them and spit them out
Av Gorritt
Member
- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
If you put them through a pulper/ auger they'll make a bugger of them ( the machine that is ) and the screeching they make is horrible to hear .
- Location
- Norfolk
Tip em on the floor and run over them. Let the long tails pick them over and them scrape soil and stones away. I have an in field roadway I tip all my spud waste on, the stone has made a nice top to it over the years.
choochter
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
lifted these carrots this afternoon, too much soil on them to feed directly in my view, so washed them
bosses son
Member
Never heard of anyone washing potatoes or swedes for stock. Was led to believe soil had lots of trace elements in it and improved health.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Large scale finisher up here uses no minerals and reckons cattle get them from soil in root crops he feeds. Must save a fortune.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
It’ll cost him a fortune when he gets listeria
bosses son
Member
Thought listeria came from soil contamination in fermented silage. Never heard of it in fresh soil from root crops.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
He feeds fattens thousands of cattle per year. Think it would have happened by now.
wellingtonfarmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
My spuds just get tipped in feeder wagon chopped up and left on silage pit floor. When in rains it cleans the spuds up pretty well!
chris wink
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I think he feeds 4K + a year he lives just down road from me , he does save a fortune and has no More problems than the rest of us
Av Gorritt
Member
- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
We use at least 10 tonnes a week outgrade ware washed . We don't chop or otherwise treat them . Simply telehandler bucket into trough . They waste very few that way and when we did put them through the feeder bucket , they didn't like the pulp produced , so we stopped . Choking ? I think we've had one that was certainly choking from potatoes and another that "might" have been . We keep the hose from an Aggers pump handy just in case.