Limit feeding with hay

LAA

Well-known Member
Thinking about limit feeding corn gluten pellets mixed with ground hay this year in a mixer wagon
after grinding the hay in a tub grinder, figure it might work fed on a greenfeed wagon on even just
on a flat wagon, calves might sort it but I doubt cows would. Anyone feeding like this? Trying to
set a couple of pastures up so as to not have to feed but a couple times a week, the cows will have
ryegrass and oats to graze most of the winter along with it.
 
Done chores for a guy one time that fed ground hay, chopped corn, and distillers grain. He added an equal poundage of water to the feed. Then mixed it really good. Helped the grain stick to the hay. Would think this would work better than trying to feed some sort of pellet mixed in.
 

Dairy farmers pretty much all feed a TMR, Total Mixed Ration. All of the feeds already mentioned plus more, all mixed together in the mixer wagon and fed out to the cattle in a bunk or just right in front of them in an alleyway. You will see the cows trying to get the pellets first, and try to steal them from their neighbors. When they can't see more pellets they eat the rest of it. Some gets pushed out of reach and has to be pushed back in later on.
 
Your right, ground feed would work better and no sorting but I get that corn gluten too cheap to pass up, might try grinding the pellets with some corn or rice bran.
 
Thats what I was wondering about, I got a mixer wagon but never used it for hay, just dry feed, but
now I bought a tub grinder and I need to experiment with a few rations.
 

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