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Missouri | 84 bales of various hay, be it old stuff, baled foxtail after wheat where straw was baled, ragweeds, ect. Hired commercial hay grinder( 15$/ton or $840) that ground them in less than 2 hours, 56 ton dry feed. This was pretty common stuff. If you feed it without grinding a cow might eat 50%. Test Results 84% Dry Matter, 9% Protein, 48.9%TDN, .98 Digst Energy. Made one long pile shaped with a loader to look like a swiming pool. Then put one load, 25 ton of Corn Thinning or Stillage as it is called (not corn syrup) cost $15/ton plus trucking for total of $33/ton or $825, pumped into the pool area. Let it set till next morning (Very Important let it move around, don't get in a hurry to pack), then folded over the edges and packed to pile like you would silage. 10 days later took a sample and presto, Test Results, 46% Dry Matter, 13.2% protien, 51.6% TDN, 1.03 Digst Energy. Pile got and still is very hot as it fermented. Will load and feed in wagon on the ground. Every step is simple and easy. This is cold weather frozen or dry ground, feed supply. Will be feed to P3 cows and replacements so the pile is gone before March Mud. Approx 50# per day per cow. No tub mixer, bale processor,or holding tanks and pumps, feed troughs ect. Just a loader and a feed wagon. Cows just moving off of summer rotational pastures to corn stalks and stockpiled fescue fields. Goal is cow works for 300 days a year and we will offer food welfare for 65 days. I had rain in 2011 till October. That helps. Little tricks like this make it fun. 2# dry material to 1# wet, would have used corn syrup but it was cost prohibitive. I think this would work good on CRP hay. | |
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Hay Succotash 2011 Version
