How to Obtain The Perfect Blend For Your Breedings

The profitability of a herd can be compromised when the livestock doesn't assimilate the right amount of feed.
Let's learn how to prepare a perfect mixture in order to avoid this risk.

Why mixing is important

Every farm animal needs to be properly nourished by assimilating all essential nutrients on a daily basis to ensure its:

• Welfare
• Development
• Production capacity ( a crucial source of the farm's income).

Inappropriate feeding can cause significant damage. Making a mixture as homogeneous as possible therefore becomes a key goal for every breeder to achieve.
No detail can be overlooked to ensure quality feed for your herds. Within the coltelliunifeed blog you can find numerous contents with useful tips to help you in your activity as a breeder.

The necessary elements to create the ideal mixture for your animals

To obtain the ideal mixture, it is essential not to neglect any of the details listed below. In fact, only by paying attention to all the elements indicated can you achieve the goal by greatly implementing the productivity of your farm.

The mixing wagon

Created with the intention of reducing labor and providing a complete feed ration to animals (unifeed), the mixer wagon has been confirmed by recent studies to be a comfortable, fast and fully capable feeding technique to meet the nutritional and physiological needs of farm animals.
The research just mentioned showed that the combination of using the mixer wagon with that of the unifeed technique is able to:

• Increase bovine milk production capacity by 15%, with peaks of even more than 20%

The mixer wagon acts by mixing the various components, cutting the long fibers, and blending everything together so that the ration intended for the animal is particularly suitable for rumination.
This seemingly straightforward and simple process is often the victim of quite trivial human errors, which can threaten its successful completion.
Finally, it should be pointed out that there is no one wagon that is better than the others.
Each company must choose which one to purchase based on its own needs.
Only then can it be satisfied with its purchase.

The Augers and Knives

Augers can be either vertical or horizontal and are an absolutely essential tool for mixing because:

• They force the materials placed in the hopper to take a particular path favoring mixing
• They are able to cut baled or wrapped hay by reducing it to 2/3 cm straw (optimal size for rumination activation in cattle).

The knives attached to the augers are an essential part of fiber mixing and cutting.
However, episodes may occur where they do not function properly.
The reasons for this behavior can be mainly attributed to 3 causes: incorrect positioning on the augers, wrong choice of knives you are using compared to the machine you own or wear and tear, the knives are too worn.
In each of the circumstances, we advise you to rely on professionals in the field who will be able to help you by offering the best solution for your needs.

Blades and knives for mixing

We have seen how to make the perfect mixture for your farm and what factors you necessarily must not overlook to achieve it.
Thanks to its experience in the industry, coltelliunifeed is ready to answer each of your questions and listen to your needs.