Abstract: A feeding system for feeding animals, in particular cows, includes a feed storage system for keeping feed for the animals in store, and a feed loading device for loading a batch of feed from the feed storage system into a receptacle of an autonomous feeding device in order to teed the animals. The feed loading device is provided with a feed grabber including two grab buckets which are hingeable between an open position and a closed position. The feed grabber includes an actuation device for actuating the grab buckets from the open position to the closed position. The actuation device includes a rotatably drivable winding-up body which is connected to one of the grab buckets and includes a winding circumference, and an arm which is connected between the winding-up body and the other grab bucket. The arm includes a plurality of mutually, hingeably connected arm sections which are made from stainless steel or a material having substantially the same strength and corrosion-resistant properties as stainless steel.

Abstract: Device for use in an agricultural livestock feed gripping jaw, including a drivable cable and a frame with a guide element, in particular a winding drum or a disc which is rotatable in the frame, around which guide element said cable is passed in such a way that when the cable is driven, the cable is guided over the guide element, wherein the cable comprises a core and a sheath, wherein the core comprises a plurality of first strands of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethene fibres, in particular Dyneema® or an equivalent thereof, and includes a plurality of second strands of fibres of a polyester which are interwoven with the former, wherein the sheath includes a combination of a plurality of interwoven strands, containing 75-100% of third strands of fibres of extended polyamide, in particular Nylon 6,6, and 0-25% of fourth strands of fibres of polyester, and wherein the guide element, at least on the outer side thereof, inlcudes ultrahigh molecular weight polyethene, in particular HMPE 1000.