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Ripley, Ontario Canada | I feed a high corn silage ration. If you have low quality stuff to blend it works really well. If your cows get too fat, you will need enough bunk to feed them all at once, and to split them into groups so the thin ones get more feed. For 600 cows I wouldn't even think of bags, a big bunk is the way to go. You will get a lot more feed per acre with corn than hay, it may not be cheaper, but I think they waste less when it is chopped and put in a feed bunk. If you have the ability to double crop cereals in the off season, they will help with your feed too. You could use wheat, barley, oats, rye etc and take it off as green feed and add it too your pile. If the cotton things (in Ontario Canada the only cotton I see is in my clothes) happens to be ready at corn silage or green chop time, get it trucked in and blend it with the corn as you pile it. If you do a half decent job of mixing while you pile and then feed with a mixer wagon you will have well mixed feed by the time the cows get it. | |
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Corn silage question
