Feed Waste/ Damage Hoof Trampling
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By feeding out into narrow windrows, a chainless balefeeder makes feed easily accessible to all animals, and all but eliminates waste caused by hoof trampling. In contrast to other systems, which feed out in solid clumps that are often left uneaten, a chainless feeder contributes to higher animals weight gains by teasing feed apart to make it more palatable and easily digestible. It handles partly used bales, so you only need to feed out what’s needed on the day, and its ability to deal with wet or loose bales means there’s no feed loss from the sides of the balefeeder. Because the chainless system teases the bale apart without over-processing, chopping or grinding the feed remains intact. This prevents the grains and highly nutritional leaves from being destroyed and blown away allowing your cattle to receive the full nutritional value of the feed. FIELD TESTIMONIAL
“This feeder allows us to ride into a pasture with a roll of hay, feed out the exact amount that we want to feed out, whether it be a whole bale, a half bale, or a third of a bale that’s up to us and if we’re measuring correctly the amount of hay we’re putting out. We come back in the next day and it’s almost impossible to tell where we’ve fed. The cattle literally eat every piece of hay off the ground.” Eric Elsner University of Georgia, USA.
“I was unrolling my bales, then I purchased a bale processor. 3-4 days after I started using the processor, my cattle started consuming as much mineral supplement in one week as they were in a month before. This was because the processor was knocking most of the nutritious leaf off the hay”. Phil Allen Manitoba, Canada.
BALEFEEDER TYPE
CHAINLESS BALE FEEDER
CHAIN/SLAT BALE FEEDER
HAY UNROLLER
RING FEEDER
BALE SPLITTER
BALE PROCESSOR CHOPPER
TMR FEED MIXER
Investment cost each
$9,000-20,000
$7,000-17,000
$3,000-10,000
$300-1200
$3,000-6,000
$20,000-35,000
$50,000-150,000
Feed Waste
5-8%
9-12%
20-30%
40-60%
20-30%
20-30%
5-10%
Feed Damage
0-5%
0-5%
0-5%
40-50%
0-10%
30-40%
20-30%
Hoof trampling
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
