Extended Info:
Purchase at your own pace without missing out on multiple purchase discounts. Discounts are applied retrospectively, so as you reach each purchase milestone—4, 8, 12, 20, and 40 feeders – all of your current and previous purchases are discounted at the same level.
Note: Discount program amounts include all grain and hay feeder purchases. Creep panels, creep gates, roofs, and other accessories or attachments are not included.
Extended Info:
Purchase at your own pace without missing out on multiple purchase discounts. Discounts are applied retrospectively, so as you reach each purchase milestone—4, 8, 12, 20, and 40 feeders – all of your current and previous purchases are discounted at the same level.
Note: Discount program amounts include all grain and hay feeder purchases. Creep panels, creep gates, roofs, and other accessories or attachments are not included.
Extended Info:
Purchase at your own pace without missing out on multiple purchase discounts. Discounts are applied retrospectively, so as you reach each purchase milestone—4, 8, 12, 20, and 40 feeders – all of your current and previous purchases are discounted at the same level.
Note: Discount program amounts include all grain and hay feeder purchases. Creep panels, creep gates, roofs, and other accessories or attachments are not included.
Balancing the diet of weaner cattle grazing dry pasture with a high energy feed, like sorghum, increases weight gain. However, the added animal value needs to be higher than the feed input cost.
Advantage Feeders provide a simple system to provide the animal’s rumen with a regular supplement while controlling the quantity of feed consumed.
| Quantity: | 50 weaners in the creep feeding group and 50 in the control group. Both groups made up of an equal amount of steers and heifers. |
| Start date: | 1/12/14 |
| Finish date: | 10/3/14 |
| Duration: | 100 days |
| Stock density: | 1 weaner / 6 acres |
| Feeding program: | Supplement group: 0.8kg/day of sorghum Control group: No supplement |
An on-farm experiment found that mob of weaner cattle supplemented with sorghum through Advantage Feeders grew at a considerably higher rate than another mob that only had access to pasture.
1. Calves per feed input which was increased from 25 calves to the commercial application of 50 calves per feeder
2.The outputs used the calculator from www.advantagefeeders.com.au/calculating-return-on-investment
3. The outputs includes the costs associated with filling, monitoring and depreciation.
| Trial period (days) | 100 |
| Sorghum used/head (kg) | 80 |
| Sorghum cost/tonne ($/kg) | $260.00 |
| Total feed cost/head | $20.80 |
| Depreciation cost* | $5.70 |
| Feeding cost** | $2.40 |
| TOTAL ADDED EXPENSE/HEAD | $28.90 |
| Average added liveweight gain/day (kg) | 0.225 |
| Total added liveweight/head (kg) | 22.5 |
| Value of liveweight ($/kg) | $2.20 |
| TOTAL ADDED INCOME/HEAD | $49.50 |
| TOTAL ADDED PROFIT/HEAD | $20.60 |
* This assumes the depreciation rate is 15%, the investment of one feeder is $3,800, supplement feeding accounted for 50% of the use of the feeder each year and 50 weaners fed from the feeder.
**This is calculated by multiplying: filling the feeders twice, by one hour each fill, labour is $60/hour and 50 weaners fed from the feeder.
Daily weight gain comparison
Income VS Expense
Weaners that were supplement fed with Advantage Feeders had an average starting and finishing weight of 259.0kg and 354.5kg, gaining 95.5kg.
Sorghum consumption amounted to 80kg/weaner.
The control group had an average starting and finishing weight of 261.0kg and 334kg, gaining only 73kg.
With a growth rate of 0.73kg/day in the control group, it would take an extra 31 days to equal the weight gain of the supplement group.
This reduced growing time is crucial for heifers being bred at 15 months. It is also important to produce saleable animals before pasture quality deteriorates leading into winter.
The experiment was only conducted for 100 days. There is potential to start supplementing yearlings earlier, immediately after weaning in August/September. This would result in much fast weight gain and the potential for stock to be sold earlier in the season, when prices as high.
While the supplement group achieved a high feed conversion of 3.13:1 (sorghum consumption : weight gain), they only consumed 0.8kg/day of sorghum. If the feed rate was doubled it is likely the growth rates would have increased with a similar feed conversion.
We conduct on-farm trials to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of our products. Each trial provides practical, evidence-based insights that guide our work and support informed decision-making.

Advantage Feeders was developed in Australia and is now used by livestock farmers in the UK and around the world.
Advantage Feeders are distributed throughout the UK by Wise Agriculture Ltd, a family-run agricultural equipment business based in North Yorkshire.
Our range includes controlled grain and pellet feeders for sheep, cattle, deer and goats, along with creep-feeding and hay-feeding solutions designed to help farmers improve feed efficiency and livestock performance.
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