Clean concentrate silos.
A feed consultant showed me a photo of a concentrate silo that had been cleaned. That was shocking!
This silo had quite a bit of residue from old feed and mold….
If this is in the feed silo, bits occasionally break off. And that gets into the system.
Or into the augers, causing blockages? Or it gets into the robot, and then the cows get some of it too. And that’s very bad…
Concentrate silos are often refilled (well) before they are empty, and then old feed can sometimes stick to the walls.
When was the last time you checked that your feed silos were completely clean?