12 | New wintering barn and feed troughs. “We bought a mixer wagon and mix lucerne, some really nice grass chicory silage and palm kernel, and feed it in the wintering barn where the weaners utilise 98% of it. Weaners on a deer farm eat or trample all the best feed between March and the end of September. By having them inside you take so much pressure off the rest of your farm, and I think we can now carry another hundred velvet stags for that reason, and those extra hundred stags pay for the capital cost of the barn and mixer wagon.” This year the Canes altered their feed crop from 15 hectares of swedes that the velvet stags graze on over winter, to 10 hectares of maize and built a new silage bunker, filled with maize on one side and lucerne on the other. “We chose Archway Group to do the construction work. They were just superb to work with. We prepared the site, and four days after they came in it was all finished.” • from page 11 RURAL PEOPLE » Canes Deer Products 20% off first order with code RURAL20, valid until 31/8/24 Farmers just want to keep farming.... We can help with that! "At last, something that works!" - Wes Parkes
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