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corn silage to beef cows?
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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 1086277" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>I'm in Wisconsin and about in the same situation you describe. A neighbor chopped and bagged a few acres of corn for me this fall. First time Ive ever done silage. After the disaster last year I put up a lot of feed!</p><p></p><p>I bought a Meyer silage wagon and put 2 or 3 big loader buckets of silage in it from the bag every couple days. I don't have a mixer and prefer to let the cows mix their own ration of sorts. I am looking at silage just as a hay extender.</p><p></p><p>From the condition it has put on my cows I think we need to be careful with free choice like this. They can overdo it. I put a couple loader buckets in every third or fourth day and let them finish it and go back to the hay. I figure a loader bucket is about 400 lb of silage. No need to feed it every day, in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>These cows are due to calve in late April. I figure the silage will keep them in condition and warm up until about mid February then no silage, hay only in P3. It has dramatically cut my hay usage. </p><p></p><p>Basically I would not feed ANY silage in the third trimester. Hay only. Then after calving maybe put it out again.</p><p></p><p>I also like the wagon as it forces them to distribute the manure and dropped silage back on the corn strip it came from. I move the wagon around every time I put a load in. It's a 20 ft wagon open all around so quite a few cows can get at the silage at the same time. No cleanup.</p><p></p><p>I have also pulled the wagon out of the pasture for a couple days when their manure piles got too flat.</p><p></p><p>Here's a recent picture:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/SRBeef1/IMG_14020_reloadedsilagewagonforcowsinlightsnow120813_zps4adf4fe2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 1086277, member: 7509"] I'm in Wisconsin and about in the same situation you describe. A neighbor chopped and bagged a few acres of corn for me this fall. First time Ive ever done silage. After the disaster last year I put up a lot of feed! I bought a Meyer silage wagon and put 2 or 3 big loader buckets of silage in it from the bag every couple days. I don't have a mixer and prefer to let the cows mix their own ration of sorts. I am looking at silage just as a hay extender. From the condition it has put on my cows I think we need to be careful with free choice like this. They can overdo it. I put a couple loader buckets in every third or fourth day and let them finish it and go back to the hay. I figure a loader bucket is about 400 lb of silage. No need to feed it every day, in my opinion. These cows are due to calve in late April. I figure the silage will keep them in condition and warm up until about mid February then no silage, hay only in P3. It has dramatically cut my hay usage. Basically I would not feed ANY silage in the third trimester. Hay only. Then after calving maybe put it out again. I also like the wagon as it forces them to distribute the manure and dropped silage back on the corn strip it came from. I move the wagon around every time I put a load in. It's a 20 ft wagon open all around so quite a few cows can get at the silage at the same time. No cleanup. I have also pulled the wagon out of the pasture for a couple days when their manure piles got too flat. Here's a recent picture: [img]http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/SRBeef1/IMG_14020_reloadedsilagewagonforcowsinlightsnow120813_zps4adf4fe2.jpg[/img] Jim [/QUOTE]
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