I am not a regular user of corn silage. However I did buy two cows from a farm that had them in a pen with some steers and eating the same silage as the steers. These cows were what I would call "greasy" fat when I bought them, presumably from the corn silage. After a couple months of grazing and then into winter on hay it was like their whole body type changed. Based on this I would be extremely careful about feeding bred cows much corn silage. Perhaps mixed in with a lot of hay etc might be ok but I would be afraid of some super-sized calves and calving problems if they were fed too much silage. jmho. Jim at Dawn
Edited by Jim 1/2/2011 09:28
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