Livestock Feeders

Livestock Feeders

*Weight: 65 lbs


Our 1-Piece Heavy-Duty Bunk Feeder is the industry leader in design and quality. The replaceable bunk liner is formed in a single piece from 100% recycled materials with no seams or inserts and is built rugged to withstand abuse from small or large herds. The welded frame is made from 1-3/4" diameter round tubular steel. Available in 5' or 10' lengths in red or galvanized frames, the feeder is 27" wide. You can also add a 5' or 10' galvanized hay rack for even more versatility.

Livestock Feeders

A feedlot or feedyard is a type of animal feeding operation which is used for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, prior to slaughter. Large beef feedlots are called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). They may contain thousands of animals in an array of pens. Most feedlots require some type of governmental permit and must have plans in place to deal with the large amount of waste that is generated. The Environmental Protection Agency has authority under the Clean Water Act to regulate all animal feeding operations in the United States. This authority is delegated to individual states in some cases. Increasing numbers of cattle feedlots are utilizing out-wintering pads made of timber residue bedding in their operations. Nutrients are retained in the waste timber and livestock effluent and can be recycled within the farm system after use.

Prior to entering a feedlot, cattle spend most of their life grazing on rangeland or on immature fields of grain such as green wheat pasture. Once cattle obtain an entry-level weight, about 650 pounds (300 kg), they are transferred to a feedlot to be fed a specialized diet which may be made up of hay, corn, sorghum, various other grains, by-products of food processing, such as sugar beet waste, molasses, soybean meal, animal biproducts or cottonseed meal, and minerals. In the American northwest and Canada, barley, low grade durum wheat, chick peas (garbanzo beans), oats and occasionally potatoes are used as feed.[citation needed.

Feedlot diets are usually very dense in food energy, to encourage the deposition of fat, or marbling, in the animal's muscles; Some consider this fat desirable as it leads to 'juiciness' in the resulting meat. The animal may gain an additional 400 pounds (180 kg) during its 3-4 months in the feedlot.



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