Feed efficiency system in action

Queensland Country Life

Andrew Donoghue, regional director Australia New Zealand, Vytelle, talks about the feed efficiency system in action with live cattle at Craigywarren, Capella, Queensland. Footage by Ben Harden

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00:00My name's Andrew Donoghue from Vitelli and we're here today at Brenton Donaldson's in Central

00:04Queensland. We've got Brenton's Vitelli Sense hardware here, which Vitelli Sense is used for

00:11measuring feed efficiency in cattle. So there's two parts of what we're doing. Just here we've got

00:16our feed intake nodes, which is measuring how much each animal eats. So animal puts its head

00:21through the rails and we read their electronic tag and we measure the feed disappearance. There's

00:26weigh scales under each of these bunks measuring the amount of feed in the bunks. So animals are on

00:32trial gear for 50 days and during that trial their only access to feed is through these

00:38through these rails in the nose to measure how much they eat and over the back of the water trough

00:43we've got our in-pen weighing system which weighs their body weight through the trial. So for feed

00:48efficiency when we're measuring how much they eat and then how much they gain during that

00:52trial period to see which animals are more efficient than others.

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