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Eastern Iowa | Gluten pellets would be easy to add in for you without changing your program. The stuff I bought a couple weeks ago figured out to a replacement for $4.50 corn, so it was worth it. If you are planning on continuing with the free choce hay in backgrounding, there really isn't much point to getting a mixing feed wagon, you just aren't putting that much bulk in the bunk. Buy a mixer mill for $4-5000 and batch the stuff up. Corn, gluten pellets, and a protein/balancer pellet (maybe a little dry molasses to get them started at first) make a nice creep feed. OF course, by my math, you would be working your way up to well over a ton of bucket feed a day on 400 pounders. That's a lot of work and time, but you are probably in great shape!
I have a 5x8 Kelly Ryan feed box mounted to an old 3/4 ton Ford that I run around feeding cattle with. I have an eight mile round trip feeding calves every day, but don't feed enough to make a mounted TMR practical. I think the neighboring operations with their mixing wagons laugh about it, but it works for me. I have very little tied up in it.
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Drastic Feeding Program Change
