The above hand operated chaff cutter was used on the Friedensruh property to cut long stalks of straw and hay into small pieces of chaff able to be stored more densely and fed to horses more easily (e.g. throught he use of chaff bag more easily stored and ......
was donated by Eric Collyer (DTHS Foundation Member).
Need info re pictures... Need research.....
The horse’s digestive system has evolved to function best when it has a continuous supply of fibrous material. Chaff is a form of roughage and is produced by chopping up hay into smaller pieces. The principal advantage of chaff is that it can be mixed with the concentrate portion of a horses feed so that the horse consumes forage with the concentrate. This can increase chewing time and slow the intake of concentrate. The benefit of increasing chewing time is that concentrate then enters the digestive tract more slowly and in smaller amounts, this allows the simple carbohydrates to be fully absorbed in the small intestine. Chaff is also easier to digest than hay and so it is great for young and older horses.
It is important to consider the nutritional content of the chaff that you feed. There is a wide range of horse chaffs available that use different fibre sources, so the key is to find the right type/s of chaff for each individual horse. Even though chaff is usually fed in a small quantity; areas such as protein and sugar content may vary greatly between different brands of chaff and can influence your horse’s overall health. Additives such as molasses, oil, mint, and garlic are also sometimes added for various reasons, these additives may also impact your horse’s overall health and need to be considered.
Chaf is the dry, scaly protective casing of the seeds of cereal grains or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material (such as scaly parts of flowers or finely chopped straw). Chaff is indigestible by humans, but livestock can eat it. In agriculture it is used as livestock fodder, or is a waste material ploughed into the soil or burned
Types of Chaff for Horses- Which is best for your Horse? | Ranvet
Why Feed Chaff to Horses? - HorseHage
Red and Green - Ronaldson Tippet Manufactured in Ballarat.
Barell underneath contained spray.
Hoses on either side lead to spray wands on either side operated by workers.
Other one is BaeVue from his house called BayView.
Hand pumped from cart
Arsenate of lead
DDT
Lime and - Bordeaux for peaches
many other chemicals
No protective gear. Sometimes gloves. No memory of
Sprayed monthly year round with additional sprays before harvest during ripening.
Fungal diseases and insect attack
Codlin moth worst (like fruit fly)
Friednesruh both sides of valley
Ruffeys Creek flows all year usually.
Now flows into Ruffey lake for flood control and recreation
Barn
Chaff Cutter (cutting straw into small specks called chaff)
When using horses in orchard, horse might have a hesssian bag under their muzzle containing chaff to keep hosre content
Wooden loader fed stalks and hand winding caused cutting fo straw into chaff.
Spikes grabbed the straw, squeezed it and fushed it inot the blade.
Manager (eating bown in barn) in
No comments:
Post a Comment