Has anyone tried this product - or familiar with any other test results?
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ROB
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ROB
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We mix it with ground cornstalks for the feeding of new arrivals in the feedyard. It makes the stalks much more palitable and much cheaper than good hay. Sometimes however the ethanol plants try to pass thin stillage off as ccds. Good ccds will have 25 to 30 % dry matter. Thin stillage will be closer to 8 to 10% both look alike at a glance.
Rob
Some of it goes into an underground tank but most of it gets dumped into a three sided bunker that slopes downhill. We back the semi into the bunker and open the valve and let it go. Then we dump in the ground cornstalks with the loader mix it up and then put it into a pile. Never had it freeze at the farm we have had the valve freeze on the tanker a time or two on the way home from the plant during the colder months however. Shelf life is a tuff question for me to give you a honest answer on as it never usually last long enough for that. In addition to that fact even if it did last long enough to determine shelf life I would probably feed it anyway. I'm not as particular as some in the cattle industry I run my operation using the six hour rule if I can eat some of it and not get the diarrea within six hours I will feed it to the cattle. More than once however I have had pull the truck over along the side of the road and then call home and tell someone at the yard to stop feeding one feedstuff or another.
Some of it goes into an underground tank but most of it gets dumped into a three sided bunker that slopes downhill. We back the semi into the bunker and open the valve and let it go. Then we dump in the ground cornstalks with the loader mix it up and then put it into a pile. Never had it freeze at the farm we have had the valve freeze on the tanker a time or two on the way home from the plant during the colder months however. Shelf life is a tuff question for me to give you a honest answer on as it never usually last long enough for that. In addition to that fact even if it did last long enough to determine shelf life I would probably feed it anyway. I'm not as particular as some in the cattle industry I run my operation using the six hour rule if I can eat some of it and not get the diarrea within six hours I will feed it to the cattle. More than once however I have had pull the truck over along the side of the road and then call home and tell someone at the yard to stop feeding one feedstuff or another.
mnmtranching
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Somn, You are one tough son of a gun. :shock: ;-) :D
You got to remember though, That old leather stomach of yours is a lot tougher than those incoming calves. :cboy:
You got to remember though, That old leather stomach of yours is a lot tougher than those incoming calves. :cboy:
