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Feeding wet distillars

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Denny

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here they come

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stuff smells like beer but the cows sure like it.

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There's a 180 cows in this bunch they can eat 4500#s of this stuff in no time its 2/3rds water their at 25#s per day we will work them up to 30 or 35#s in a week or so.
 
Faster horses said:
That was very interesting Denny. First time I ever saw wet
DDG fed. Heck, first time I ever saw it period.

Just a little tip, you can feed a mineral with less phos
when you feed DDG because of the phos in the DDG.
That will save you some money on mineral.
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Did you see that vigortone has a mineral just for that reason its called 3VO it has no phos and is $2 a bag cheaper than the 3V4S.I will be ordering some next week.
 
Since it contains so much moisture is it hard to feed or hard for the cows to eat when it's 30 below? Wouldn't it freeze in big lumps?
 
Sandy, we feed a lot of it here, 11k pounds a day right now between some feeder steers and the brood cows.. We feed it a bit different than Denny as we have a TMR (Just mix that Vigertone right in with it Denny, at least that is what my rep had me do.. Wonder when he is coming down here).. Generally when you get it fresh it is HOT and it stays hot for a while. The outside might crust over but when you break into a pile with a bucket to load it it can get steamy, I have seen this more with Gluten but the early Distillers we got this year was hot like that too.. So in a situation like that freezing isn't a huge problem... Even the cool distilelrs we were feeding that was frozen into blocks... Thos blocks break open real easy, probably becasue of all the fat that is in there...

As far as it tasting like beer.. Wouldn't know but it sure smells better than Gluten...
 
Sandy said:
Since it contains so much moisture is it hard to feed or hard for the cows to eat when it's 30 below? Wouldn't it freeze in big lumps?
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I have been feeding it to calves for 6 weeks now when it does freeze I break it up with a shovel in the pile it only freezes in about 6 inches so far.I just load it and feed it they can eat what I feed in the time it takes to feed hay then I just run over the big chunks with the tractor.Anything the size of a grape fruit they just chew on like a popcicle by the next day there is nothing left.
 
Recently broke ground on a new ethanol plant here in MS about 90 miles from me. Hope to be in operation by this time next year.

I plan on using it in my backgrounding operation. What are yall having to pay for wet or dry DDG?

Johnny
 
Broke-T said:
Recently broke ground on a new ethanol plant here in MS about 90 miles from me. Hope to be in operation by this time next year.

I plan on using it in my backgrounding operation. What are yall having to pay for wet or dry DDG?

Johnny
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The plant here has had a dryer problem since Sept 15th they have been giving it away since.The trucking figured out to $8.75 per ton in wet form which is 65% moisture we had it tested and it came back at 32.76% protein
 
Buyer said:
Where is the plant Denny maybe we can get some down here in Ne.
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Little Falls Mn. if you need a phone number let me know.I talked to the truckers last night they may have the dryer up and running in a week or two but they said that in october also.
 
We haven't had a dryer break down in a while around here and the price of natural gas came down a bit from last year so a lot of the places are contracted out to dry and ship everything. Sure is hard to get good deals this year and the truckers aren't hauling for free either. depending on where you are and what plant you are using by the time you get it home around here you are looking at 35-45 a ton which is too dang expensive unless you have some CHEAP forage to mix it with. Last year it was more like 25-30 a ton but demand is growing.. We just had a new plant go on line about 60 miles away so that MIGHT help but not as much as corn gettting a bit cheaper again... When the other two plants come on line next year it might help even more. especially the one only 5 miles away, might just buy a dump trailer and get it myself at 2 am or something like that.
 
There was an ethanol plant in Scotland South Dakota. Is it still running? A fellow I worked for driving milk tankers also had cattle. We used to go down to Aberdeen South Dakota and get thin stillage, which is the distillers grain before it's dried down. Hauled home six thousand gallons at a shot. Cows went nuts for that stuff too.
 

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