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How many pounds of corn silage do you feed per cow?

Looking for any real world examples of silage feeding to cows... looking at feasibility and sustainability of a cow/calf operation.

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Letting a neighbor dairy operation chop 50 acres of earlage for their cows. How do we price it ? SE **

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I know ********** has calculators for selling silage out of the field. They might have something for earlage.

At the end of the day it's w...

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I don't have much experience with earlage, so you get what you pay for with me. Dad used to fill silo with it for finishing cattle.

I have ...

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That 17-22 is for spring calving cows. will feed our fall calves 25-30 pounds a day plus better hay especially since we r breeding them bac...

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Google "cowculator" its a free spreadsheet Put out by ***. We have found it very useful in figuring out possible rations for our cow/calf he...

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We usually just take them up to about 750 pounds and get rid of them usually in April. We keep a few replacement heifers. For our fall cal...

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In a more feed lot setting, Probably would with extra hay. That's basically what did with the calves we put on feed after weaning last sprin...

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Do you background your feeders with corn silage?


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We feed 17-22 pounds a day to our cow/operation plus dry free choice dry hay.

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