Grinding Hay and Feed - Hay & Forage Forum
2014年2月24日 · DO NOT like hay that is not ground, and cannot grind. Reel type mixers have a horizontal "reel" which turns opposite of two augers to mix feedstuffs. Can have a hay kit added, which is basically a retarder and knives added to the top auger to size hay. I have a Roto-Mix 354-12b with a Hay Maxx kit.
Grinding Hay... - Homesteading Forum
2012年1月29日 · Don't remember the details but it was discussed on DGI a few months ago. I had to feed a chopped timothy hay for about a month & pieces ranged from 1/2"-3" long. Goats loved it, did great on it & had the same big, bulging rumens they had on regular hay.....This was also without any grazing, browse ect. ect. Just chopped hay, alfalfa pellets ...
Shredding hay with a chipper/shredder. | The Goat Spot Forum
2019年4月30日 · Hay Folks, There is much online about feeding shredded hay to livestock and the benefits of it. My shredder turns hay into one inch (or less) pieces, and dusts much of it. I just tried feeding it yesterday with the goats. The goats ate it well when mixed with a grain ration, but ignored it the rest of the day. Continue? Stop? Thoughts please.
Feed Mill - Hay & Forage Forum
2013年12月1日 · I'm thinking about making my own feed and I need a little advice. I want to grind alfalfa hay and corn (either shelled or ear). I figure the mixture would be about 50/50 and I hope to attain around 14% crude protein. If I mix 1000 lbs of corn and 1000 lbs of alfalfa at a time what type (brand, model, etc.) of feed mill should I be looking to ...
Types of Feed Mixers/Grinders? - Hay & Forage Forum
2014年12月15日 · Grind the corn with an old farmhand grinder/mixer and sometimes feed barley too. have been feeding dry distillers lately. Sure mixes nice. I definitely see the advantages to the vertical mixer wagon but some of the concerns I have with them is not being able to conviently adjust my ration, for example say I want 1000lbs of alfalfa but my bales ...
Vertical TMR. Whole bales vs grinding hay? | Hay & Forage Forum
2015年8月31日 · Monomixers are faster at grinding hay, but can plug in certain conditions, mainly in grass hay. They will also grind just fine at lower pto speeds, just more slowly. Here, it costs 6-7 dollars per 5x6 round to get hay tub ground. I dislike getting unground round baled hay into a mixer wagon. Aggravating and slow.
Grinding my own feed. - Hay & Forage Forum
2018年4月22日 · Dad ground alfalfa hay into some ground feed for his heifers a few times, it was a slow process but made a nice feed. With his older grinder/mixer I'd sometimes get bored grinding corn so I'd pick dead weeds along corrals and stuff em …
Want to make a hay chopper - Homesteading Forum
2014年8月24日 · I don't know that they work for hay, and don't know why a person would want to grind dry hay, but otherwise they grind up grains and nuts and such. Move the plates together and reseed your grain through the burr mill to make it finer …
Running Hay thru Hammermill - Homesteading Forum
2013年8月28日 · Dad had a Montgomery Wards hammermill with the hay feed system. It had a blower on it to blow the feed to the feedbox. It fed the hay as it ground the grain, used the same screen. It was very fine and hard to see mixed in. I have seen hay screens with large holes but then the hay is coarser and harder to feed with the ration.
Wood chipper for straw and hay? | Homesteading Forum
2012年3月11日 · So I got a troy build tomahawk chipper shredder and I shred about 12 bales of hay every two weeks. Problem is the discharge. You have to constantly clear the area to prevent clogging. I put the machine on my garden trailer to elevate it some. Keeps you going a little longer but you still have to clear the shredded hay away from the discharge.