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Thumb of Michigan | Your popcorn is testing very similar to regular corn as far as CP.
In your spreadsheet it appears you have popcorn CP as a dry matter basis, I use as fed for CP numbers. Oats are normally around +13% CP on a as fed basis (as soybean meal at +48% as fed).
You could just take your calf ration and add cracked/ground corn 50/50 (one bucket of each). This will get you in the ballpark for the cull cows. But IMHO you are wasting expensive oats, where you could just be using your popcorn. You could even grind some cobs into the cow feed, if you wanted to reduce your hay (if purchased). I don't think a finishing ration needs the CP at 12 or 13%, you need to look at NEg levels (I like +60), DDG will help in this area (as well as skipping the oats & soybean meal).
Chickens IDK.
What are the reason(s) for only one ration for numerous species of critters? space, time, storage, etc.
BTW, your scrap popcorn tested well, it's worth close to if not the same as regular corn IMHO. IDK remember what you were going to sell it for, to your neighbor.
Hopefully someone wiser will chime in and possibly correct my mistakes. | |
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Popcorn feed analysis results
