Beef producers

NY 986 · Sep 10, 2012

Just wondering how many of you out there feed corn silage to feeders and the ratio to hay. Assuming good quality silage and hay.

donjr · Sep 10, 2012

I'd have to guess mine is close to 1:1. Silage is the cheaper feed, but it is stretched by the hay. On an all hay ration, we'd use about 4 to 5 bales a day, but with the silage, we generally use 2 bales and 2-3 buckets of silage, and they pretty well clean it up.

rrlund · Sep 10, 2012

I just keep a round bale of second cutting in the feeder so they have it free choice. Then I mix silage and ground ear corn about a third grain,two thirds silage,enough to last 24 hours. Precision guesswork.

the tractor vet · Sep 10, 2012

That is what we feed to the brood cows and some to the feeder . The feeder get ground ear corn Barley and soy bean meal and minerals and a round bale when they finish up the one . Brood cows always have good hay .

John A. · Sep 10, 2012

NY 986, Back when I was in the Panhandles of TX and Okla. Put 80 head of 600 lb wt Stockers on160 acres, 80 acres of irrigated corn stalks, (after combining the corn)and 80 acres of irrigated wheat pasture. +++
5,- 16 ft silage troughs filled every day from early to mid-November to mid-March. Calves will cross the scales around 800 lbs! When Sold!
Depending on the amount of crappy cold, snowy weather, would determine what the overall daily rate of gain would be!!
What is your main pasture this set of cattle will be on???? Our cattle would be grazing wheat and corn stalks when the bunks were empty. Is is not till about January the calves learn what to do and how to graze corn stalks and make it work!!!
So what is the main pasture the cattle will be grazing, how many acres, how many cattle, approximately how many lbs of Silage / day fed will determine how many round bales are needed!
hope this helps,
Later,
John A.

John A. · Sep 10, 2012

NY 986, Back when I was in the Panhandles of TX and Okla. Put 80 head of 600 lb wt Stockers on160 acres, 80 acres of irrigated corn stalks, (after combining the corn)and 80 acres of irrigated wheat pasture. +++
5,- 16 ft silage troughs filled every day from early to mid-November to mid-March. Calves will cross the scales around 800 lbs! When Sold!
Depending on the amount of crappy cold, snowy weather, would determine what the overall daily rate of gain would be!!
What is your main pasture this set of cattle will be on???? Our cattle would be grazing wheat and corn stalks when the bunks were empty. Is is not till about January the calves learn what to do and how to graze corn stalks and make it work!!!
So what is the main pasture the cattle will be grazing, how many acres, how many cattle, approximately how many lbs of Silage / day fed will determine how many round bales are needed!
hope this helps,
Later,
John A.

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