Re: Piggies

Posted by JD Seller on September 18, 2018 at 22:46:56 from (208.126.198.213):

In Reply to: Piggies posted by formenwhogrow on September 18, 2018 at 18:58:17:

Drop the oats or any other high fiber ingredients, like hay, in any finisher ration. Your oats are high in fiber too. Since your going to be using ear corn your going to have too much fiber anyway. I would use the smallest screen you can get the cobs to go through, 1/2 inch maybe. Run the hammer mill at high speed too. The hogs will root the cobs out and waste more feed doing that. So try to get that cob as small as possible or they will root harder.

I have used ear corn in hog rations to just use up some or to bridge being out of shelled corn. It always resulted in a much slower growth and more mess around the feeders.

If you have a slab of concrete or other hard feeding area, I would be tempted to really go old school. Forget grinding the ear corn. Throw whole ears out on the slab. Feed a pelletized supplement. The hogs will shell the corn and will not waste much at all if the feeding area is not muddy or manure covered. You can use the cobs as bedding.

When my Maternal Grand Father retired he raised some hogs. He liked HUGE hams, so he wanted 300 lbs. hogs. He would feed out 4-6 hogs a year, just for meat for himself/family. He had a two hole hog feeder he would put a pelleted supplement in. Then ear corn on a slab. The hogs will self regulate the ration. When they are small they will eat more supplement as they get larger they will eat more corn.

They will grow however you feed them. The different will be time to finished and the amount of feed it will take. Feeding them this way will mean they will be around 7-8 months old when finished over the six months they would be with a higher energy diet.

As for amounts/ingredients when grinding feed. Your going to want around a 14% starter ration and a 10-12% finish ration. Your ear corn will only be around 7% protein. Soybean meal is around 42-44% protein.

So to start I would grind #1500 of ear corn, #450 soybean meal, with a hog mineral supplement. This would be right around a 14% feed. IF you want to drop some of the ear corn and add in some oats this will work in the starter ration but not in the finish ration very well. So you could go up to #500 of oats and just drop that amount of corn. The protein will be close enough to not worry. The oats may help the younger piglets get started. Just do not go over board as hogs are not made to process high fiber diets very well.

A good finish ration would be #1750 of ear corn, #200 soybean meal, and a hog mineral supplement. Zero oats or hay.

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• Re: Piggies formenwhogrow 21:12:45 09/19/18 (0)

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