SE Manitoba | jcolli140 - 1/23/2020 23:51
I was always under the impression that the corn needed to be cracked. A local farmer/feeder bought a closed down feed mill and reopened it, asksd me to try his starter but i was skeptical because he used whole corn in it. My calves have never gone after the starter as well as they do with the whole corn. If you watch the calf eat starter, they will chew it and break those kernels open. Why pay to have the corn cracked when the cattle will do it for you? Looking through their manure youll be hard pressed to find a whole kernel. In my humble opinion, the chewing will help buffer the gut some as well so that's an added benefit.
I'm wondering if the whole kernels are preferred because the calves like the texture.
If that's the case adding some whole kernels to the processed stuff would help.
Here - - - I don't process very much - - - perfect would be if every kernel was only broken once.
I want almost no fines and that's what I'm shooting for.
Going to have to find a way to separate my stuff to figure out the percentages of the various sizes of material.
That might not be too easy (likely not terribly cheap either. |
Homemade calf starter
