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2. Silage - Wikipedia

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   The advantages of silage as animal feed are several: During fermentation, the silage bacteria act on the cellulose and carbohydrates in the forage to produce volatile fatty acids (VFAs), such as acetic, propionic, lactic, and butyric acids. By lowering pH, these produce a hostile environment for competing bacteria that might cause spoilage. The ...

3. Forage harvester - Wikipedia

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   A forage harvester – also known as a silage harvester, forager or chopper – is a farm implement that harvests forage plants to make silage. [1] Silage is grass, corn or hay, which has been chopped into small pieces, and compacted together in a storage silo, silage bunker, or in silage bags. [2] It is then fermented to provide feed for ...

4. Fodder - Wikipedia

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   "Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage). Fodder includes hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and mixed rations, and sprouted grains and legumes (such as bean sprouts, fresh malt, or spent malt ...

5. Thoughts on hay storage and feeding practices to limit wastage

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   Storage method, loss study on round bales. Every step in the process of making hay, storing the hay and feeding the bales results in some level of dry matter loss, and with the 2024 harvest season ...

6. Hay - Wikipedia

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   Thus quantity of hay is important for cattle, who can effectively digest hay of low quality if fed in sufficient amounts. Sheep will eat between two and four percent of their body weight per day in dry feed, such as hay, [9] and are very efficient at obtaining the most nutrition possible from three to five pounds per day of hay or other forage ...

7. Beaverslide - Wikipedia

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   A beaverslide is a device for stacking hay, made of wooden poles and planks, that builds haystacks of loose, unbaled hay to be stored outdoors and used as fodder for livestock. The beaverslide consists of a frame supporting an inclined plane up which a load of hay is pushed to a height of about 30 feet (9 m), before dropping through a large gap.