Saturday, March 22, 2014

Merits Of Using Round Bale Hay Net To Feed Your Livestock

By Linda Cantrell


Fodder crops such as legumes, grass and herbaceous plants are usually used as feed for livestock consumption. They are usually harvested and dried up making them more suitable for animal consumption. Hay is dried fodder that can be given to livestock in nets. The most common feeding net is the round bale hay net that is used to feed animals because of its numerous merits.

Putting round bale nets out for livestock is a great way of ensuring that your livestock have a continuous hay supply especially in drought conditions when the fodder is scarce. During dry weather conditions, hay is a more precious commodity than usual and thus the need to use this structure to prolong its use. Use of this item as well manages the amount of hay that an animal consumes thus avoiding a cases of livestock overfeeding.

Use of this structure to feed your livestock ensures that you minimize wastage of hay. Animals that feed without these items are likely to waste much hay. The wastage occurs from the animals stomping on the hay, sleeping on it, pulling it apart as well as hay being blown away in the wind. In the case where feeding is done on nets, wastage occurring from these ways is controlled.

Longevity of your fodder is prolonged by use of these items to feed animals. Bales that are put in nets and left for livestock to feed are likely to last long than bales not in nets. For this reason, feeding nets are used to control the feeding habits of your animals as well as wastage of hay.

This structure is vital for the safety of your livestock. During feeding, livestock may develop boredom vices and other health defects like stomach ulcers. Hey nets are good because they ensure that your livestock are not subject to such health defects and boredom vices. They also reduce chances of choke, as your animals cannot grab huge mouthfuls of fodder.

Some of your animals may be greedy such that they feed fast. The facility is good as it controls the feeding rate of these greedy and overweight animals. Underweight livestock are as well catered for as they are ensured constant supply of hay. As they grab feed from the net, they are subjected to a natural feeding environment of practicing grazing habits.

This feeding method is not labour intensive. This is because the hay needs to be put in the net rarely because one bale can take a considerably long time. This saves a lot of valuable time and energy. This is in the sense that one needs not to frequently go out to give the livestock fodder. This greatly helps save time that can be utilized to do something else important.

These bale hay nets are used to control the type of feed that the livestock requires. Animals will tend to need different types of feed at different times of the year. For instance, livestock will tend to require much of fibre feeds on cold seasons to maintain them warm throughout the season.




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