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Hey folks,
I have to ask here, get answers, translate, and look for equipment here, so bare with me please.

We don't like feeding a bunch of processed feed to our horses. Have a press and and buy oats/barley local. Press will crack corn also but is real slow. Is there a small scale machine (?) that will chop cobbed corn enough that all can be eaten but not grind it to a powder?
Or would a silage chopper do the job with just dumping cobs in?

Another thought, would letting corn stand until late summer/fall and chopping stocks and all keep as feed without fermenting?

Like the idea of storing cobs in a crib and chopping as needed though.

Garden shredder/chopper maybe?

Dave
 
Hello Dave. I know that some silage choppers are equipped with a "korrel-kneuzer" (Dutch) with the aim to improve digestion of the corn kernels. In English this would roughly translate to "kernel crusher"; in German "anschlagen oder knicken des Maiskorns".
HTH ;-)
Hendrik
 
Thanks Hendrik. I have something for the kernel itself (german term is getreide quetsche or grain squeezer). Just thought I remembered folks a long time ago chopping/feeding the cob with the corn without grinding everything to a powder.

Dave
 
i'VE GOT A HAMMER MILL POWERED BY A FLAT BELT OFF MY FARMALL h THAT YOU CAN CHANGE THE SRCEENS IN IT TO ADJUST HOW IT COMES OUT. May want to look into it. The pic isnt mine but same set-up
Ryan
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(quoted from post at 05:45:49 05/19/10) i'VE GOT A HAMMER MILL POWERED BY A FLAT BELT OFF MY FARMALL h THAT YOU CAN CHANGE THE SRCEENS IN IT TO ADJUST HOW IT COMES OUT. May want to look into it. The pic isnt mine but same set-up
Ryan
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Can get hammermills dirt cheap here, but I thought they ground stuff fine (???????). Remember seeing folks feeding stuff that was chunks of cob with corn on it (some looked like slices). If I could run an ear through a hammer mill, that would be the ticket and cost me prolly a whole 10 bucks.

Dave
 
Probably easy to find an old hammer mill somewhere that could grind the grain to what ever you want. I worked in a feed mill in my younger days and farmers always wanted grain ground course. We use to remove the screen completely to get it right for them.

As far as feeding ear corn I think it depends on what feed formula you want to use. We always ground ear corn for cows and a hammer mill will do that just fine. We used the cob for bulk instead of other ingredients. I grind the cobs after shelling the corn for bedding.
 
(quoted from post at 05:53:42 05/19/10) Probably easy to find an old hammer mill somewhere that could grind the grain to what ever you want. I worked in a feed mill in my younger days and farmers always wanted grain ground course. We use to remove the screen completely to get it right for them.

As far as feeding ear corn I think it depends on what feed formula you want to use. We always ground ear corn for cows and a hammer mill will do that just fine. We used the cob for bulk instead of other ingredients. I grind the cobs after shelling the corn for bedding.
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Did all this with a hammermill????
 
The flakes of cob with kernals on musta been course chop silage. For feeding dry corn, you need each kernal nicked some.

A hammer mill is the ticket for dry cob corn. Different size screens give you differt results. A 3/8 inch screen will give you flour and take forever; a 1.5 inch screen will bust up the kernals & cobs into bigger chunks with not much powder.

Some folk believe in a burr mill, or a crushing roller mill, which squishes the kernals without any powder at all. However, doesn't work well with cobs.

For dry cob corn, a hammer mill with the right screen is as good as it gets.

--->Paul
 
Yes- did it when I was in the mill and I still do it with my old belt driven New Holland mill - both hammer mills.
 
I've done many Saturdays grinding feed with one or two doing the weeks cow feed and my brother's hogs. Number 1 if you're hand feeding you will need a full face shield and ear plugs and a dust mask this is looking back. After a day of grinding feed my ears were ringing, blowing dust out my nose for a day or two and my clothes looked like I worked in a whitewash factory. We had our hammermills in old wooden RR boxcars so the dust collectors did what they were supposed to do with the low ceilings blew the dust right back on you.
 
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