SRBeef
Well-known member
I am running short on good hay, as are many folks. However one positive thing about a lot of pasture in the area being torn up for corn is that you can purchase baled cornstalks fairly reasonably priced compared to good hay.
I have been putting out one stalk bale for each hay bale. Using the stalks for roughage and the good hay for protein and energy along with a Mineralyx barrel and salt block. I just bought some stalk bales last week putting out a couple before going to the Louisville show.
today I was pleasantly surprised to see how much of the stalk bales had been eaten. I was mostly looking at them as bedding. The stalk bales are just out on the ground in my winter sacrifice area near the hay cradles. Maybe the stalk will help when the frost goes out and we enter the mud season.
Here are a couple pics. It looks like these stalks should help extend my hay to get me to May 1 start of rotational grazing. These girls will start calving at the end of March, thankfully not now.
Jim
I have been putting out one stalk bale for each hay bale. Using the stalks for roughage and the good hay for protein and energy along with a Mineralyx barrel and salt block. I just bought some stalk bales last week putting out a couple before going to the Louisville show.
today I was pleasantly surprised to see how much of the stalk bales had been eaten. I was mostly looking at them as bedding. The stalk bales are just out on the ground in my winter sacrifice area near the hay cradles. Maybe the stalk will help when the frost goes out and we enter the mud season.
Here are a couple pics. It looks like these stalks should help extend my hay to get me to May 1 start of rotational grazing. These girls will start calving at the end of March, thankfully not now.
Jim