Abstract: Apparatus for transporting and discharging a fodder block, the apparatus including a container for holding the fodder block and a comminuting and discharging facility which is connected with the container In a starting position of the apparatus the comminuting and discharging facility serves for the transport of the fodder block and the container is disposed with an open side pointing upwards and the comminuting and discharging facility is disposed above this open side of the container. The container together with the comminuting and discharging facility are tiltable to an angle of approximately 180.degree. about an essentially horizontal swivelling axis into a discharging position in which the open side of the container points downwards and in which the comminuting and discharging facility is below this open side and in which the fodder block in the container is supplied by the action of gravity to the comminuting and discharging facility from above.