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<blockquote data-quote="nrs farm" data-source="post: 261494" data-attributes="member: 154"><p>We feed corn silage to our cows in the winter after the calves are weaned. We feed approx. 40-45 lbs per cow. I like to feed about 5 lbs per head of straw or poor quality hay along with the corn silage. Corn silage is nice, but if you feed much more than 40 lbs per cow they get fat. But at 40 lbs. they are not totally satisfied either...they act hungry. So we feed the straw and poor quality hay with the silage. Now once they have their calves, we increase the hay to a better quality and increase it to 10-20 lbs per cow rather than the 5-10 lbs and maintain the silage at 40-45 lbs. until the silage runs out and then we feed all hay until we can pasture them. I read that it takes about 3 times the weight of corn silage as compared to dry hay (ie. replace 1 lb of hay with 3 lbs of corn silage). I cannot advise you on the baleage. Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nrs farm, post: 261494, member: 154"] We feed corn silage to our cows in the winter after the calves are weaned. We feed approx. 40-45 lbs per cow. I like to feed about 5 lbs per head of straw or poor quality hay along with the corn silage. Corn silage is nice, but if you feed much more than 40 lbs per cow they get fat. But at 40 lbs. they are not totally satisfied either...they act hungry. So we feed the straw and poor quality hay with the silage. Now once they have their calves, we increase the hay to a better quality and increase it to 10-20 lbs per cow rather than the 5-10 lbs and maintain the silage at 40-45 lbs. until the silage runs out and then we feed all hay until we can pasture them. I read that it takes about 3 times the weight of corn silage as compared to dry hay (ie. replace 1 lb of hay with 3 lbs of corn silage). I cannot advise you on the baleage. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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