Not quite sure what you mean by a meal feed - do you actually mean a triue meal or a pelleted feed? If your using a pelleted feed consider using a snack feeder behind your quad. You may be able to hire one from a sheep farmer locally as they are not being used at this time of year. The beauty of these special trailers are that you drive along in the field and electrically open the slide and dumps of feed are spaced out driven by a landwheel, you can calibrate the amount of each dump. The number of dumps will be counted and displayed on the handlebars of the quad and is totally related to the number of animals you are feeding. advantages 1. accurate feeding possible 2. feed in a fresh clean place day 3. with spaced feeding between dumps = reduced bullying 4. make them walk to the feed each day for exercise - monitor for illness or lameness etc whilst walking 5. the hopper can be filled easily from a bulk supply and a tarp with bungee rope pulled over the food to keep out rainwater or mud 6. easy physical work for you or someone else disadvantage 1. Cost!! 2. once they "cotton on" to the quad and feeder arriving. getting in the field can be an issue! A drive over gate can help a lot. regards, Dan
What I did 2 yrs ago with the bigger bullocks is fence off one small corner of fields with temp reel and put my 2 troughs in there and just opened it daily, it was ideal either but safer for man and beast , I also fed along the fields like you but you would think it would have to be dodgy for wildlife I got away with it too though but ye loads of TB in our area atm so using all troughs . Either way putting your safety 1st much more important and they would destroy you going scrambling for the nuts
Ben keeping a good eye to make sure the job is done right 😂😂🚜🐕🐶
Good Morning Gavin, brilliant video, calming, and pleasurable to watch . Have a safe and Blessed weekend. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
Cheers carmel
Cracking video as always. Kieran has a great setup. You can’t beat a bit of blue
Thanks so much, he does bales in in no time
Hi Gavin, new subscriber from eastern Canada, have a good day🤘
Hi Dominique good to have you on board
Good video Gavin, should be well stocked up for the winter.
Cheers Brian hopefully keep them roaring the place down 🤣
as always great video.
Cheers Don much appreciated
Great video Canning farms 🚜 👌
Thank so much
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Great video ☺️
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you could draw the bales in for feeding off the lane just take down the wire
Good idea
Not quite sure what you mean by a meal feed - do you actually mean a triue meal or a pelleted feed? If your using a pelleted feed consider using a snack feeder behind your quad. You may be able to hire one from a sheep farmer locally as they are not being used at this time of year. The beauty of these special trailers are that you drive along in the field and electrically open the slide and dumps of feed are spaced out driven by a landwheel, you can calibrate the amount of each dump. The number of dumps will be counted and displayed on the handlebars of the quad and is totally related to the number of animals you are feeding.
advantages
1. accurate feeding possible
2. feed in a fresh clean place day
3. with spaced feeding between dumps = reduced bullying
4. make them walk to the feed each day for exercise - monitor for illness or lameness etc whilst walking
5. the hopper can be filled easily from a bulk supply and a tarp with bungee rope pulled over the food to keep out rainwater or mud
6. easy physical work for you or someone else
disadvantage
1. Cost!!
2. once they "cotton on" to the quad and feeder arriving. getting in the field can be an issue! A drive over gate can help a lot.
regards, Dan
Cheers dan thanks so much
Could you put the troughs along by the wire and fill from outside?
Works with the single troughs but the double sided ones are awkward
What I did 2 yrs ago with the bigger bullocks is fence off one small corner of fields with temp reel and put my 2 troughs in there and just opened it daily, it was ideal either but safer for man and beast , I also fed along the fields like you but you would think it would have to be dodgy for wildlife I got away with it too though but ye loads of TB in our area atm so using all troughs . Either way putting your safety 1st much more important and they would destroy you going scrambling for the nuts
Cheers gerry that's a good idea to keep distance between yourself and stock going to try that
Maize meal is what draws badgers if no maize be in the ration u should be ok
Good stuff