Diet Feeding Beef Cattle.

[Seth470]

Starting to use our diet feeder a bit more, just want to know what people are putting in.
Haven access to Silage, Straw, Hay ,barley, brewers grain and spuds.

 

[mo!]

Build your own spreadsheet, put costs in, use standard figures for ME, DM and protein and play about until you have a ration that is cheap and hits your targets. Not difficult.

 

[davidroberts30]

Build your own spreadsheet, put costs in, use standard figures for ME, DM and protein and play about until you have a ration that is cheap and hits your targets. Not difficult.

Dont need to build your own spreadsheet theres 1 on the adhb website

 

[JohnAC]

Just curious what sort of cost people put to running a diet feeder with depreciation/fuel etc. are the savings in being able to feed more byproducts? Do cattle do much better? Sorry for going off topic

 

[mo!]

Just curious what sort of cost people put to running a diet feeder with depreciation/fuel etc. are the savings in being able to feed more byproducts? Do cattle do much better? Sorry for going off topic

Cattle do better, easier to feed different by products, worth it for us.

 

[ollie989898]

Being able to weigh ingredients will mean you can cost your ration very nicely. Intakes generally better and more even. Spuds are full of starch so beef cattle should do well if they are included but I've only ever seen them fed to dairy cattle.

 

[Samcowman]

Starting to use our diet feeder a bit more, just want to know what people are putting in.
Haven access to Silage, Straw, Hay ,barley, brewers grain and spuds.

For our finishing cattle they are on red clover silage, grass silage and barley and are flying this year. Really pleased with how they are going.
Have you had your silage analysed? Will pay to get it done then you will know what to feed with it.

 

[mo!]

Feed plenty of raw potato here to finishers, as with all these byproducts, if they are close at hand and you can buy them sensibly then you will use them. Chips are cheap, brewers grains have gone short, not a problem, just move onto something else.

 

[goodevans]

Have a lot of by products been redirected to AD plants now or is there an abundance, the bit that gets me is when lobbying groups claim veg/food etc is getting thrown away when actually they are been put to good use

 

[jackrussell101]

For our finishing cattle they are on red clover silage, grass silage and barley and are flying this year. Really pleased with how they are going.
Have you had your silage analysed? Will pay to get it done then you will know what to feed with it.

How many kilos a head of barley can you get away with feeding in a tmr mix?

 

[Samcowman]

How many kilos a head of barley can you get away with feeding in a tmr mix?

As much as you want. Ours are only on 3.5/ head/ day at the moment

 

[jackrussell101]

As much as you want. Ours are only on 3.5/ head/ day at the moment

That's good, what dlwg do you get with that and what age are they ready for finishing?

 

[Samcowman]

Running at about 1.5kg/day on this weeks weighting’s that’s with decent grass silage and red clover silage.

 

[Celt83]

Might have a chance to get some forage maize. What will be the rule of thumb on how much to feed per head per day?

 

[Samcowman]

What type of cattle will it be for and what will it be fed with? Last year continental steers and heifers and angus steers were on 12kg/day angus heifers on 8 but only had about a month on it.

 

[Celt83]

Cattle sound similar to you. At the moment they are having silage (crap analysis), straw and brewers grains fed tmr. I'm looking to put some cover on them and thought the starch in maize would be good?

 

[Samcowman]

Cattle sound similar to you. At the moment they are having silage (crap analysis), straw and brewers grains fed tmr. I'm looking to put some cover on them and thought the starch in maize would be good?

Yeah it will be good for that. Does depend on price of it if it’s good value vs barley.