Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Historically we’ve always fed cake and straw and they’ve done very well and it suits our system as we’ve not got any fixed facilities for them so we can just use tubs and a ring feeder.
with cake price climbing higher we need to consider the alternatives as see how others are doing it.
We fed silage this jan/ feb onwards to turn out and was really disappointed how dirty they became and we end up treating 25%+ with bad eyes.
also seem to struggle when they are too big for the sheep ring feeder but too small for the big one so just climb in and sh!t all over the silage.
alternative is we just stick to cake and straw and take the 6k a month hit
with cake price climbing higher we need to consider the alternatives as see how others are doing it.
We fed silage this jan/ feb onwards to turn out and was really disappointed how dirty they became and we end up treating 25%+ with bad eyes.
also seem to struggle when they are too big for the sheep ring feeder but too small for the big one so just climb in and sh!t all over the silage.
alternative is we just stick to cake and straw and take the 6k a month hit