condensed distillers solubles through a lick tank.

[mncowboy]

feeding condensed distillers solubles through a lick tank

Anyone had any experience feeding the wet condensed distillers plus soluble through the use of a lick tank with licking wheels while on pasture or during the winter in a dry lot? Also I was pondering the idea of top dressing silage with ddgs to give the silage more of a punch. I had hoped to either mix the two next to the pile before being loaded into a feeder wagon or to just fill the feederwagon and then sprinkler the ddgs on top with the loader bucket.
Thanks in advance,

 

[bigbull338]

ive never heard of putting that in lick tanks.dont know if it would work or not.but you could put it in big water troughs and let the cows lick/drink the distillers liquid.

 

[Tim/South]

We began using the wet brewers grain last year and just feed it in regular feed troughs. What we get is not thin enough to work on a lick wheel. I have seen some on YouTube that is thin enough to probably work that way.

 

[Bigfoot]

I have wet distillers grain, available. Is that the same product your talking about?

 

[bigbull338]

yes they are talking about the wet brewers grain.

 

[TexasBred]

ive never heard of putting that in lick tanks.dont know if it would work or not.but you could put it in big water troughs and let the cows lick/drink the distillers liquid.

Some of the liquid feed companies are taking this product (corn syrup), cleaning it and using it the liquid feed mix to replace some of the molasses. It does have some energy but also has the high sulfur levels which will restrict the inclusion rate.

 

[mncowboy]

http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewconte ... xt=ans_air

This is the article that prompted the question. I was curious of others experience because I would imagine the wheels would be pretty tough to turn. I imagine this is not necessarily a bad thing as it would limit the animals intake.

 

[ibetyamissedme]

yes they are talking about the wet brewers grain.

they are not talking about wet brewers grain, wet brewers grain comes off one side of the centrifuge the product they are talking about comes off the other side.

 

[toughntender]

The stuff will freeze. We picked it up in an insulated semi tanker. It was really warm from the ethanol plant. It would pump really well when it was hot but was awful when it cooled of. Our biggest problem was all of the mycotoxins that developed after a wet corn harvest. They all got multiplied into the syrup. It absolutely killed our gains.

 

[toughntender]

Has anybody else noticed that the coproduct feeds just don't seem to provide the same performance that they did in years past?

 

[TexasBred]

The stuff will freeze. We picked it up in an insulated semi tanker. It was really warm from the ethanol plant. It would pump really well when it was hot but was awful when it cooled of. Our biggest problem was all of the mycotoxins that developed after a wet corn harvest. They all got multiplied into the syrup. It absolutely killed our gains.

Require your seller to furnish you with a guarantee on mycotoxin levels. They should get one themselves when they buy the corn especially if they know a large part of their product will be sold to dairies.

 

[Lucky_P]

toughntender.
May depend on the plant, and what they're removing/producing.
Local feeder buys his DGP from a plant about 90 miles away, by the semi-load - they don't remove the corn oil at that plant; he says his gains are better than when he fed DGP from the local plant, 10 miles away. Because the local plant also extracts & sells the corn oil, fat levels in their DGP are lower.

I can only haul about 3-4 tons at a time, don't have storage for a semi-load, and can run out to the local plant and get a load on my lunch hour, so I stay with what I can readily get...

 

[Kscattle]

+1 on the stuff freezing! Also if it sets for a couple days idle it'll settle out and you'll have sludge in the bottom of your luck tank and liquid on the top. I have personally used this stuff where I used to work so I do have experience. We got this stuff hot and pumped it pretty well but once it cooled off we had to pressurize the tanker to force it out. Keep it recirculated and you might be fine in the summer but I would never use it in the wintertime.