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<blockquote data-quote="mitchwi" data-source="post: 151925" data-attributes="member: 2063"><p>I think it's kind of funny you ask if they "still out there".... my husband likes to joke that we are a few decades behind in the cattle business. We have an Owatonna Mixer mill (VERY OLD). About every 3 weeks we mix up a batch, of our own cob corn, a neighbor sells us oats by the feed sack, add salt, minerals/vitamins, molasses, and sometimes 4G. </p><p></p><p>As far as more handling involved we think it's less, because before doing this we had silage. That was a daily 1 to 2 hours just depending on how cold it was and how much busting up of the silage needed to be done. Now with our grinding, it's about 2 hours every 3rd week, and about 15 minutes a day to feed.</p><p></p><p>I have heard that to finish out it is better to use whole corn, and one thing i remember being said is that the whole corn will not "pack" inside of them like a ground feed will, which could happen when they are being fed the larger amounts per day of feed for the finish process. We have never had a problem tho with ground corn in our finish process, but we provide free choice grain and alfalfa to finish. But I suppose for those that are limiting the hay, the whole corn does make sense....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mitchwi, post: 151925, member: 2063"] I think it's kind of funny you ask if they "still out there".... my husband likes to joke that we are a few decades behind in the cattle business. We have an Owatonna Mixer mill (VERY OLD). About every 3 weeks we mix up a batch, of our own cob corn, a neighbor sells us oats by the feed sack, add salt, minerals/vitamins, molasses, and sometimes 4G. As far as more handling involved we think it's less, because before doing this we had silage. That was a daily 1 to 2 hours just depending on how cold it was and how much busting up of the silage needed to be done. Now with our grinding, it's about 2 hours every 3rd week, and about 15 minutes a day to feed. I have heard that to finish out it is better to use whole corn, and one thing i remember being said is that the whole corn will not "pack" inside of them like a ground feed will, which could happen when they are being fed the larger amounts per day of feed for the finish process. We have never had a problem tho with ground corn in our finish process, but we provide free choice grain and alfalfa to finish. But I suppose for those that are limiting the hay, the whole corn does make sense.... [/QUOTE]
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