can i?

[pigguy]

can i feed some weaning show heifers corn silage? along with grass hay and minerals??

 

[REM]

Hi Maine 12.  Yes you can feed corn silage.  If the calves are green, ( no grain or creep feed, and very little condition) it will take a few days to get them used to the silage.  I would start the calves out with grass hay and sprinkle silage on top. Every few days I would increase the silage and decrease hay until I got to the desired lbs of silage.  How long this will take depends on how good the consumption is. 
P.S.  I would be interested  in what everyone Else's weaning program is, i.e. age of calves, vaccination  and feed program.  Thanks.

 

[red]

We feed the calves at the farm silage not our show heifer though. Just doesn't give them hair I like w/ texturised feed.

REM- we usually wean our calves about 3 months. Start them on a 15% protien creep feed w/ decox at an early age. When they are eating the feed well we wean.
We creep feed them in a separate pen so they can eat & get away from the cows. Usually start working them there too.

Red

 

[pigguy]

i wish i could feed them a show feed for a whole year. but im cheap. they wont be shown until this spring or summer

 

[red]

Just watch to make sure they don't get too fat on it. That's the biggest problem I see. Also a good idea to send in a sample for a forage test. That way you can make sure you're getting a good balanced ration. Also watch for mold, that can cause some reproduction problems down the road.

Red