The answer… great, great. No, this is, this actually something that we get all the time because there are so many different bedding options for your stalls, for your horses, for your, for your cattle. And we deal with all kinds of bedding around here when it comes to manure spreaders. And actually, perfect timing on this question. It was actually last week, I took a little ABI field trip. We were out to a local, some local friends here around the corner that have just an eight stall barn.
They spread with, or they bed their stalls with sawdust, and they’ve got a little, a little tiny manure spreader, just a little guy. And it’s not one of ours, and that’s okay, totally fine. But we noticed, we took the time to take a look at the spreader, that it has kind of these rectangular shaped paddles to kick what’s in the manure spreader, out of the manure spreader. But there’s nothing to break things up. And so that’s why we here at ABI very much prefer to have that in-line shredder bar. That’s why the in-line shredder bar is standard on all of our manure spreaders, no matter what size you’ve got. And on the bigger manure spreaders, it actually comes with a second shredder bar to really work down the big piles that you can load up the big spreaders with.
But we’ve said it for years around here, we shred before we spread, especially if you’ve got straw, and you’re using the straw in your, in your stalls or for your cattle, for your animals, you really need to do your best to chop that straw up, because remember, the name of the game is Pasture Health. It’s not just about getting poop out of the stalls, it’s about actually turning that manure into something that is valuable for your pasture. And to do that, you need to break those clogs up. So thank you for asking the question when it comes to how the straw spreading is handled, different bedding conditions, especially straw spreading, the answer is, we specialize in it. That’s what those straw spreaders are for.