As yall read a few days back we bought about 40 bushel of cob corn. Anyways the cows and calves just dont care for it. They dont know what to do with it. Would grind it but no hammermill. Well I was brain storming. Why wouldnt a limb/leaf chipper do the job. Could mount it on a stand and have it discharge into a barrel or bin. Anybody tried it before?
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I think it would work you would need some kind of dust collector like on a hammermill. Other wise it would blow all over. Maybe try grinding into a feed sack. I have done this with tree branches, leaves etc. Sure be worth a try.
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fixerupper
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Give it a try and let us know. For a small scale operation it might do the trick. Cattle don't like powdery feed that gets pasty in their mouths so I would think comething course like you will have might do the trick. If it cracks the kernals a little it's a plus.
I can envision the kernals and pieces of cob flying all over the place after they hit whatever container you plan to blow them into so you might have to be a little inventive in order to keep them corraled. Oh, by the way, it's called ear corn when the kernals are still on the cob. What you will have is ground ear corn. Jim
I can envision the kernals and pieces of cob flying all over the place after they hit whatever container you plan to blow them into so you might have to be a little inventive in order to keep them corraled. Oh, by the way, it's called ear corn when the kernals are still on the cob. What you will have is ground ear corn. Jim
thanks. i knew it was ear corn and felt goofy calling it corn on the cob. i had forgot the right term for it. I got access to a bunch of woven plastic sacks. May try shooting it into those so it dont bounce around. Though about doing a 3/4 corn 1/4 good hay mixture. should be good for fattning feeders up. need to get rid of the corn anyway.
Lou from Wi.
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WOuld your MUDDER KNOW?
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TomH in PA
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I used to do that for a few chickens we had. It worked okay, they scratched around and picked out what they wanted. Seems kind of labor intensive for cattle though.
greenbeanman in Kansas
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You need to read a novel based on real experiences by Ralph Moody called Horse of a Different Color.
In it he tells of watching a fellow teaching feeder cattle to eat ear corn. Takes a couple of days to teach them and after they work it off of the cob for themselves.
By the way----took place in NW Kansas near the Nebraska line just after WW I. Cedar Bluffs to be a little more specific which is north of Oberlin.
Part of the Little Britches series, but On the Dry Divide and Horse of a Different Color are the ones in the KS setting.
In it he tells of watching a fellow teaching feeder cattle to eat ear corn. Takes a couple of days to teach them and after they work it off of the cob for themselves.
By the way----took place in NW Kansas near the Nebraska line just after WW I. Cedar Bluffs to be a little more specific which is north of Oberlin.
Part of the Little Britches series, but On the Dry Divide and Horse of a Different Color are the ones in the KS setting.
I got my Dads old chipper when he passed away and I use it to chop shelled corn into scratch for the chickens. I put a piece of hardware cloth on the upper throat of the discharge, works the same as a screen on a hammermill, you can get different sizes of mesh in hardware cloth, probably 3/8'' or so for ear corn.
I was watching some new show on the History Channel last night called Apocolypse Pa or some such thing. The guy made a corn grinder that would make Red Green proud. He drilled a bunch of holes in a piece of plywood,then took the wheels off his lawnmower and used that to grind corn for his moonshine stil.
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