Livestock Feed (Anyone Use Chopped Hay w/Supplements?)

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Has anyone used crushed hay and corn with molasses and salt for livestock feed?

-- Bettie Ferguson (jobett@dixie-net.com), January 30, 2001

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My hubby wants to know what kind of hay?

-- Nan (davidl41@ipa.net), January 30, 2001.

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Any good grass hay will do.We usually take the hay and corn to the crusher this year we will buy our corn and hay from the feed mill.

-- Bettie Ferguson (jobett@dixie-net.com), January 30, 2001.

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Yes, I used chopped hay with supplements on a regular basis. To each ten bales I generally have 200 pounds of chopped corn and a 50- pound each bag of salt, minerals and molasses added. Results in about 15-20 bags of feed.

I use this simply as a treat, not a growing ration, when I have heifers or bulls separated from the herd. If a growing ration is desired, you can add cotton seed meal or soybean hulls.

This is an excellent way to utilize low-quality square baled hay they wouldn't normally eat.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), January 31, 2001.


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this sounds really neat.how do you chop the hay? does the mill mix it for you?

-- renee oneill{md.} (oneillsr@home.com), January 31, 2001.

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The feed mill will chop and mix everything for you.

-- Bettie Ferguson (jobett@dixie-net.com), January 31, 2001.


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A feed mill operator who knows what they are doing can create a mix to any protein percentage and even tailed to specific breeds. For example, wheat or oats can be added chrushed or whole. Using the formulas in Morrison's Feed and Feeding, you can even work up your own mix, even if it doesn't include chopped hay, such as for hogs. You would know what you are getting and the price is probably comparable to pre-mixes.

Renee: You could assure your butcher hog buyers they had not be fed any meat and bone meal (MBM) or other animal byproducts this way and might even get a better price by doing so. By the way, if you live near a potato chip factory, what doesn't end up in bags is sold for less than $10 per ton. It is 33% fat and can replace about one- eight of regular feed for hogs.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), February 01, 2001.


We went to the feed mill yesterday and came back with 750lbs of feed for $47.Donkeys didn't think much of it at first. Today they really enjoyed it.

-- Bettie Ferguson (jobett@dixie-net.com), February 04, 2001.

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