What feedstuffs do you have for your geographical region?

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This came from a question about citrus pulp. What different types of feedstuffs do you find for your geographical region?

Here in Ohio we use a lot of corn by-products. Some people feed bakery waste. Kalmbach Feeds has made it a commodity in some of their feeds. Have a special building just for the storage of bakery wastes.

Red

 

[chambero]

In addition to corn, etc, our mill uses lots of milo in our feeds + cottonseed (meal, hulls).

 

[showsteerdlux]

We can get gluten easy as well as cotton seed hull, meal and whole cottonseed. Can also get the bakery byproducts easy and soy hulls and pelleted hulls are also popular. Cant get milo easy. Oats and barley are expensive when we can get them. I'm in NC.

 

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good point! I'm from Ohio & Chambero is from Texas.

Red

 

[TJ]

good point! I'm from Ohio & Chambero is from Texas.

Red

KY - common feed mill rations for commercial herds...

Soy hull pellets

2/3 Soy hulls X 1/3 gluten with rumensin

1/3 soy hulls X 1/3 gluten X 1/3 hominy 

Corn is readily available, as are soy products.  You can get barely, oats, beet pulp & cotton seed hulls, etc., but it has to be shipped in bags.  BTW, I see a Kalmbach truck at our local mill several times per week either delivering or picking up bulk loads. 

 

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ITJ- I used to do a lot of work w/ the southern States Co-op's. Both on their local level & for the manufacturing mills.
Always enjoed my trips to KY. would stop & see some of the landmarks like Lincoln's birthplace while I was making sales calls. Always wanted to tour the caves at Cave City but never took the time.

Red

 

[showsteerdlux]

KY - common feed mill rations for commercial herds...

2/3 Soy hulls X 1/3 gluten with rumensin





Thats what we are feeding right now. Good feed and cows love it.

 

[TJ]

ITJ- I used to do a lot of work w/ the southern States Co-op's. Both on their local level & for the manufacturing mills.
Always enjoed my trips to KY. would stop & see some of the landmarks like Lincoln's birthplace while I was making sales calls. Always wanted to tour the caves at Cave City but never took the time.

Red

Red,

We used to do a lot of business with our local Southern States back when they were grinding & mixing bulk rations, but along came the by-products & now we can't afford not to feed them, when we feed. 

Been to Mammoth Cave 1 time... pretty interesting tour & glad that I went. 

 

[showsteerdlux]

ITJ- I used to do a lot of work w/ the southern States Co-op's. Both on their local level & for the manufacturing mills.
Always enjoed my trips to KY. would stop & see some of the landmarks like Lincoln's birthplace while I was making sales calls. Always wanted to tour the caves at Cave City but never took the time.

Red

Red,

We used to do a lot of business with our local Southern States back when they were grinding & mixing bulk rations, but along came the by-products & now we can't afford not to feed them, when we feed. 

Been to Mammoth Cave 1 time... pretty interesting tour & glad that I went. 

How much is your feed running right now? Ours is at 190/ton same mix

 

[TJ]

KY - common feed mill rations for commercial herds...

2/3 Soy hulls X 1/3 gluten with rumensin


Thats what we are feeding right now. Good feed and cows love it.

Soy hulls are what we feed to the bulls & heifers... it's a good developer ration by itself.  

My dad fed that 2/3 Soy Hulls X 1/3 Corn Gluten Feed ration to his weaned steers this year.  They gainned over 3.5 per day on it.   Pretty good for $150-160 per ton, delivered!!  It's a good for a cheap grower ration.  

We've also fed the soy hulls X corn gluten feed X hominy ration to a few fat steers & I think that it works OK for a cheap finishing ration.  However, to do a real good job, it's best to slowly work up to a ration that is about 20% hulls X 20% gluten X 20% hominy X 40% corn during the last 60 days.      

 

[TJ]

ITJ- I used to do a lot of work w/ the southern States Co-op's. Both on their local level & for the manufacturing mills.
Always enjoed my trips to KY. would stop & see some of the landmarks like Lincoln's birthplace while I was making sales calls. Always wanted to tour the caves at Cave City but never took the time.

Red

Red,

We used to do a lot of business with our local Southern States back when they were grinding & mixing bulk rations, but along came the by-products & now we can't afford not to feed them, when we feed. 

Been to Mammoth Cave 1 time... pretty interesting tour & glad that I went. 

How much is your feed running right now? Ours is at 190/ton same mix

I honestly don't know since we haven't bought any in several weeks... but, it's slowly going up here too.  In Nov it was around $155 per ton.  Back in August, it was a little over $5 per 50 lb. bag.       

 

[dutch pride]

KY - common feed mill rations for commercial herds...

2/3 Soy hulls X 1/3 gluten with rumensin





Thats what we are feeding right now. Good feed and cows love it.


How much do you feed your cows? Do you feed this as a supplement with hay? provide free choice mineral?  Have just been feeding hay but want to start supplimenting them soon.

DLZ

 

[showsteerdlux]

You use it as a supplement. Its recommended 5-7 pounds a day and we feed a free choice mineral with rumensin in it also. If you have an excellent quality hay go with 5 pounds low quality 7 pounds. Also works well as a creep because the hulls stick to their noses real easy and they learn to like them.

 

[shortdawg]

Whole cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, moduled gin trash ( cotton gin by-product), corn, wheat, peanut hay ( annual from harvest time and perennial ), sorghum - sudan haylage, bermuda grass hay, and many more.

 

[showsteerdlux]

I forgot about hay. We have fescue primarily, some timothy, orchard, sometimes alfalfa mix and have access to peanut, soybean, and some bermuda depending on how good crop was. In eastern NC they feed the gin trash at the rate of 40 #s per day per head in place of hay and they get it for free all they have to do is pick it up.