Stretching Your Hay Supply

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Stretching Your Hay Supply

• Roy Burris and John Johns

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Animal Management Issues

• Pregnancy check, cull opens
• Cull older, lower producing cows
• Cull problem cows, disposition, arthritic, teat,
  udder and feet problems,

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Hay Analysis

• By cutting if possible
• Indicates how much to feed and what supplement if
  any may be needed

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Conduct a feed and animal inventory

• Use ASC-78 as a guide
• Group animals by their needs
• Compare how much feed is needed vs what is on hand

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Book or forward purchase feeds now they will
increase in price on the spot market after the
first of the year!
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What feeds can or should I use?
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Nutrient dense feeds such as grains, commodities,
etc., are cheaper per unit of nutrient compared
to hay. Be sure and compare on a dry matter
basis.
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Compare wet distillers grains vs a corn SBM
mixture on a DM basis

• Wet DG 75 water, 40/ton (160/tn DM)
• TDN 90, CP 28
• Corn grain 3/bu and SBM 48 184/tn
• Mixture 159/ton DM
• Storage and handling

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Alternative Feeds
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Limit Feeding Corn vs Hay to Cows - Three Trial
Summary
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Limit Feeding High Energy Rations for Growing
Cattle
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Intake and Digestibility of Hay by Cows fed
Increasing Levels of Corn
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Type of Energy Supplement and Gain of Steers on
Hay Based Rations
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Alternative Cow Rations,Early Winter
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Alternative Cow Rations Late Winter
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Restricting Hay Intake for Cows Nursing Calves
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Restricting Hay Intake for Cows in Last Trimester
of Gestation
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Rumensin for Wintering Cows

• 50 60 of total cost is winter feed
• Prevent and control coccidiosis
• Improved feed efficiency
• Feed in 1 lb of feed daily

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Procedures

• Dates, 1/10/05 to 4/11/05
• 24 pregnant cows
• 8 pens
• Blocked by expected calving dates
• Treatments
• Free choice hay 1 lb supplement
• 85 of F. C. hay 1 lb supp. w/200 mg Rum.
• After calving, 3 or 3.5 lbs SBH daily

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Cow and Calf Performance, Feed Intake, lbs
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Cow and Calf Performance, Body Wt. lbs
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Cow and Calf Performance, Calf Data
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Feed Prices

• Soybean Hulls 70/ton
• Supplement 5.35 or 6.85 cents/lb
• Hay 120 or 40/ton

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Total Feed Costs and Savings
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Questions