Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Health & Nutrition
Question: Silage vs Hay
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 11571"><p>there are mainly two different acids involved in the sillage process. milk and butter acid. you want to have milk acid, and the last thing you want is butter acid, because it smells bad and the animals won't eat it even when 0.2% of it is present in your sillage.</p><p></p><p>you prevent this by creating an anaerobic environment as fast as possible: as soon as the grass is cut 24 hours, you either bale it and wrap the bales, or put it in a silo, press out the air by driving a minimum of 12 ton bulldozer over it, and then you vocer it with plastic and soil.</p><p></p><p>the milk acid bacteria produce an environment that stabilises the pH very quickly (within three days) so almost no roting has occurred. a good gras sillage should look almost the same when it comes out of the heap as it did when it went in.</p><p></p><p>the best way to determine whether you ahve good sillage, is by the smell. if it's a nice smell, it's good sillage. if it stinks like hell, it's bad sillage. and truxt me, your neighbours one mile further wil be able to smel that bad heap.</p><p></p><p>in general it's easier to make good quality sillage then it is to make good quality hay, because storing is relatively cheap (outside, with plastic and soil on top of it) and it takes less days of favourable wheather. buying sillage is never a good idea, because you cannot open the packs to see what's in them: the aerobic process would be started, and your feed would have to be fed in three days (otherwise the pH becomes favourable again for the butter acid bacteria, which is what makes perfectly good sillage turn bad).</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:gynantonyx@lycos.com">gynantonyx@lycos.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 11571"] there are mainly two different acids involved in the sillage process. milk and butter acid. you want to have milk acid, and the last thing you want is butter acid, because it smells bad and the animals won't eat it even when 0.2% of it is present in your sillage. you prevent this by creating an anaerobic environment as fast as possible: as soon as the grass is cut 24 hours, you either bale it and wrap the bales, or put it in a silo, press out the air by driving a minimum of 12 ton bulldozer over it, and then you vocer it with plastic and soil. the milk acid bacteria produce an environment that stabilises the pH very quickly (within three days) so almost no roting has occurred. a good gras sillage should look almost the same when it comes out of the heap as it did when it went in. the best way to determine whether you ahve good sillage, is by the smell. if it's a nice smell, it's good sillage. if it stinks like hell, it's bad sillage. and truxt me, your neighbours one mile further wil be able to smel that bad heap. in general it's easier to make good quality sillage then it is to make good quality hay, because storing is relatively cheap (outside, with plastic and soil on top of it) and it takes less days of favourable wheather. buying sillage is never a good idea, because you cannot open the packs to see what's in them: the aerobic process would be started, and your feed would have to be fed in three days (otherwise the pH becomes favourable again for the butter acid bacteria, which is what makes perfectly good sillage turn bad). [email=gynantonyx@lycos.com]gynantonyx@lycos.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Health & Nutrition
Question: Silage vs Hay
Top