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Abbey Diet Feeders offer a unique chopping and mixing action.
As summer droughts appear to be more common, diet feeder wagons can become an important tool in herd management by offering farmers consistency, quality, and flexibility in supplementary feed they deliver to their animals.
Abbey Diet Feeders offer a unique chopping and mixing action that helps the animal to digest the maximum amount of nutrients from the feed they have eaten, to drive performance, but also allowing inputs to be managed efficiently, improving milk and meat yield per kg dry matter intake.
The Abbey Machinery Diet Feeder range consists of 17 vertical auger diet feeders from 8 to 33.5 cubic metre capacity.
The layout features a unique low auger profile, combined with an elevated top knife for improved bale processing and mixing. In addition, equipped with seven knives per auger, a long counter knife comes further up the feeder from the floor aids a faster breakdown of material, while an auger throughshaft design imparts added strength and prevents twisting, ensuring a long working life.
Counter knives at the rear of the wagon are designed to hold the bale against the augers and knives for a more consistent chop, while also preventing the bale climbing upwards in the mixer tub. The feeders have the option of hydraulically operated counter knives, meaning the farmer can adjust the knives from in-cab without the need for a manual pin.
The main gearbox is mounted high up into the auger for guaranteed stability and working life, with the option of a cablecontrolled change-over function for 2-speed gearboxes on vertical diet feeders.
All Abbey Diet Feeders are supplied with the latest 2810 Digi-Star Weighing System, an intuitive management tool to access and analyse feed data instantly. The system helps optimise TMR inputs through precision loading and discharge, thereby improving profitability. Used in conjunction with a free mobile app for in-cab control, the need for manual feed composition sheets is removed.
Learn more at www.abbeymachinery.com or www.farmgard.co.nz.
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