Silos - this is a very valuable food, especially for cattle.Its quality often depends on the quality of milk.Therefore, his preparation and storage should be approached with the utmost responsibility.This applies to absolutely all stages, starting with the preparation of the pit and ending recess.
silo - either compressed green mass of annual or perennial plants, cereals, maize, or mash of potato tubers, frostbitten or affected by fungal diseases, and therefore unfit for human consumption.Grass cuttings before laying in the pit should be mandatory crushed.This tonkostebelnye plants cut or cut into pieces the length of 3-4 cm. Trubostebelnye same, such as sunflower, corn, etc., - not less than 5-6 cm.
Previously, of course, you need to preparepit.Its depth should be around 2.5 m. Width - not more than 3.5 m. The length can be arbitrary.The walls of the pit are doing sloping, and the corners - rounded.Silage - a food that in the process of preparing very easily rot.In this case, feeding it to livestock is not allowed.Rotten silage is suitable only for compost.Therefore it is very important to compact the mass as closely as possible.
Once a pit is dug, it is imperative to smear its walls thick enough layer of clay or even impose a brick to concrete and cement mortar, mixed with lime.Weight layers stacked with each rammer.Harvesting silage if applied very lush grass (potato leaves, stems, young corn, etc.) produced with the addition of chopped straw in an amount of about 10% by weight.
When used on ensiling roots, a hole is not completely filled.The fact that the potatoes are wanders very intense.As a result of mass slightly increases in volume.Grass also lay up and tamped until the pit is full to the brim.This condition should be required to perform.Otherwise, in the future will fall into the pit of rain and melt water, which is extremely undesirable.
tab must be made no more than 1-2 days.Otherwise, the food will turn out poor quality.After some time, pressed grass settles.If the rammer has been made correctly, the shrinkage will have to make no more than 10%.Also, no later than 1-2 days, a hole will need to be supplemented to the brim.
Since silage - is fermented without air green mass, it should be sealed to hide.Wherein the plastic film is generally used.Most importantly, the pit was covered as thoroughly as possible.The edges of polyethylene covered with earth.Sometimes, instead of the film using a layer of clay (10 cm).In this case, after shrinkage grease the edge as "cover" in this place certainly crack.
Storage silo in winter also involves cover layer straw hole 30 cm (using film) or a layer of earth 40 cm (using clay).If this is not done, feed can be nipped by the frost.
fermented mass necessary to take out very carefully, cutting a piece in such a way so as not to loosen the left side and bottom layers.After the excavation pit again, be sure to cover the film and again sprinkled edges.
