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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1479900" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>BF, </p><p>Back in 2007, when there was virtually no hay available - I knew of folks around here who were paying upwards of $90/roll for cornstalks and CRP residue, cut in October, with 1.5" diameter honeylocust trees throughout it - we started limit feeding. </p><p>Trials done at tOSU showed that you could feed as little as 5# hay (actually, they went as low as 2.5#) per head/per day, and the cows would do OK, so long as you met their nutritional needs with other feeds.</p><p> </p><p>We bought in some high-priced hay from out west and fed... 10#/hd + 12-13# modified distillers' grain product. Cows came through the winter in better shape than in any previous year when we just fed free-choice crappy local hay (no test, but probably low CP and low TDN... I should have, but didn't know (or care) any better).</p><p>We've pretty much continued that 'limit-feeding' deal til this year... have been unrolling (as you know, it's been dry/solid til now)... 1 roll for the Spring-bred cows, 1.5 rolls for the Fall calvers and their calves. They have been cleaning it up, with virtually NO waste. </p><p>But today(and yesterday) they're on the concrete feeding pad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1479900, member: 12607"] BF, Back in 2007, when there was virtually no hay available - I knew of folks around here who were paying upwards of $90/roll for cornstalks and CRP residue, cut in October, with 1.5" diameter honeylocust trees throughout it - we started limit feeding. Trials done at tOSU showed that you could feed as little as 5# hay (actually, they went as low as 2.5#) per head/per day, and the cows would do OK, so long as you met their nutritional needs with other feeds. We bought in some high-priced hay from out west and fed... 10#/hd + 12-13# modified distillers' grain product. Cows came through the winter in better shape than in any previous year when we just fed free-choice crappy local hay (no test, but probably low CP and low TDN... I should have, but didn't know (or care) any better). We've pretty much continued that 'limit-feeding' deal til this year... have been unrolling (as you know, it's been dry/solid til now)... 1 roll for the Spring-bred cows, 1.5 rolls for the Fall calvers and their calves. They have been cleaning it up, with virtually NO waste. But today(and yesterday) they're on the concrete feeding pad. [/QUOTE]
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