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<blockquote data-quote="farmer rich" data-source="post: 122437" data-attributes="member: 1952"><p>Full feed, I believe, is the same as free choice, we call it ad-libitum over here. It all they can eat. You should still offer some long fibre such as hay or straw to aid digestion though.</p><p></p><p>I get steers onto full feed starting with two small feeds of about 1kg of corn at both ends of the day. I will increase this by 1kg per week so that they are on about 8kg per day at the end of the third week. They will be safe on full corn by this point. If at any point they start to look dull, scour badly or just look generally sick then back off the feed straight away. Let them get over it then build them back up slowly.</p><p>You can get them on feed faster using a mixer wagon to mix forage in with the corn and slowly increasing the percentage of corn to forage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmer rich, post: 122437, member: 1952"] Full feed, I believe, is the same as free choice, we call it ad-libitum over here. It all they can eat. You should still offer some long fibre such as hay or straw to aid digestion though. I get steers onto full feed starting with two small feeds of about 1kg of corn at both ends of the day. I will increase this by 1kg per week so that they are on about 8kg per day at the end of the third week. They will be safe on full corn by this point. If at any point they start to look dull, scour badly or just look generally sick then back off the feed straight away. Let them get over it then build them back up slowly. You can get them on feed faster using a mixer wagon to mix forage in with the corn and slowly increasing the percentage of corn to forage. [/QUOTE]
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