Products - Pellon Filling devices
Automatic feeding with SAC-Pellon FEEDER
Automatic feeding can relieve you of a lot of the feeding work in your cow house. Experience shows that Automatic feeding can result in up to 60% saving of working hours when compared with traditional feeding methods.
Individual feeding
SAC and Pellon developed a feeding system with a rail-mounted feeder driven by batteries or a combination of batteries and power rails. The feeder fully automatically carries out these functions;
- Filling
- Mixing
- Feeding
The principle behind the SAC-Pellon FEEDER system is that the animals can be divided into feeding groups that are allocated their own individually composed mixed ration of feed. A feeding plan is drawn up for each group of animals (milking cows, high and low yielders, heifers, dry cows, etc.) to be fed their specified feed composition. For each group the feeding plan and the number of animals in the group are entered into the computer. Then the SAC-Pellon FEEDER manages the rest.
The SAC-Pellon FEEDER loads automatically from different filling devices. Individual feed adjustment is possible as often as required. After automatically weighing-in the individual feed types, the feeder mixes itself the feed with a free-fall mixer. Filling the system hoppers is a simple process and all groups can be fed as you like it - without any extra workload.
Fresh feed
As long as the feed types are kept separate, they stay fresh for a long time. When mixed, a fermentation process starts. Especially in the summer many farmers find it difficult to prevent heat developing in the roughage, when the feed mix stays the whole day in the feeder or in a half meter high heap on the feeding table. Research shows that a temperature increase of a few degrees reduces the energy value by 10-15%. The SAC-Pellon FEEDER weighs-in and mixes the individual feed types immediately before feeding. Most farmers do also choose to mix feed 4-6 times daily for each feeding group, so only a small quantity of freshly mixed feed is fed each feeding time. All this contributes to a significantly higher ad lib feeding and increases the animals' roughage feed intake.
Better feed efficiency
Different groups of animals have of course different physiological feeding needs. Especially during growth and lactation periods a correct composition is crucial for a higher feed intake and yield - also here SAC-Pellon FEEDER makes a difference. The system enables you to optimise and dispense the correct and exact mix of fresh feed to each group accommodating their specific needs - this results in direct feed cost savings. With the SAC-Pellon FEEDER a feed utilization approaching 90% is not unrealistic.
Improved milk quality
Feeding with MIX FEEDER means a clean feeding table. No soil from tractor wheels to contaminate the feed reduces the risk of high spore counts.
Feeding table
The size of the feeder makes it very flexible. A narrow feeding table only 2 m wide is sufficient and that, of course, reduces construction costs in new buildings. On the other hand, the system can easily be integrated into the existing framework in buildings with wide feeding tables. In most cases the entire unit can be fed even though part of the unit is housed in old buildings with only little room. Only the young calves are left to be manually in most cases.
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