Fontanelle, IA | Hay Hud Ohio - 7/10/2025 14:03
Mitchco hasn't asked yet so I will. We have a half a truck load of poor quality wheat, like 40#TW 18% damage (straight off the combine and they said heat and insect damage???)
He has a bout 20 brood cows on pasture that is getting thin so he is feeding round bales and seldom any grain but could.
8-10 calves from 2wt up to 6 wt, getting some grain in the barn
2-3 fats for the freezer getting lots of grain.
How much and what processing to do with this wheat to feed it gone? can mix with corn, beans and/or hay.
Is there a limit to how many pounds per day per head or max percentage of mix, or max percent of body weight??
any other concerns with feeding this wheat to cows? I know in parts of the continent wheat is heavily used for feed.
From what I heard at the elevator there is going to be a lot of feed wheat in this area even though there is not much wheat grown around here.
Never fed wheat intentionally but had some really “mature” wheat hay.
Google “wheat based cattle rations” or “wheat feeding to cattle recommendations”
BE VERY CAREFUL AND WORK UP SLOWLY. WHEAT STARCH IS SUPER-deduper FERMENTABLE - rumen pH drops really fast like something 2-4 x as fast as corn
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