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Feeding winter beans as protein.
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<blockquote data-quote="nxy" data-source="post: 7949077" data-attributes="member: 466"><p>We have used beans as our protein source for years and they are pretty easy to use. In my experience and (depending on the mill) beans hammer better than roll. My current roller mill has only got 2 small rolls and they don't feed well so its a slow job, the previous one was the same make but had the third roll but it was just the same. Bigger rolls might work better but we bought a cheap hammer mill with 8mm screens and they rattle through that. Beans can vary in size and texture I would get a couple of buckets full of them and try them before commiting to buying in beans that your mill doesn't like.</p><p></p><p>We feed them at about 15 to 20% of the mix with barley, triticale, minerals and bicarb. You can put the cattle off if you include too much, they have a strong taste but I have always thought when feeding a lot of grain thats not always a bad thing, if the mix is too nice they can overdue it quite easily. When changing over from the pellets I would slowly introduce them rather than make a sudden change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nxy, post: 7949077, member: 466"] We have used beans as our protein source for years and they are pretty easy to use. In my experience and (depending on the mill) beans hammer better than roll. My current roller mill has only got 2 small rolls and they don't feed well so its a slow job, the previous one was the same make but had the third roll but it was just the same. Bigger rolls might work better but we bought a cheap hammer mill with 8mm screens and they rattle through that. Beans can vary in size and texture I would get a couple of buckets full of them and try them before commiting to buying in beans that your mill doesn't like. We feed them at about 15 to 20% of the mix with barley, triticale, minerals and bicarb. You can put the cattle off if you include too much, they have a strong taste but I have always thought when feeding a lot of grain thats not always a bad thing, if the mix is too nice they can overdue it quite easily. When changing over from the pellets I would slowly introduce them rather than make a sudden change. [/QUOTE]
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