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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...
MoreI 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...
MoreDo 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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