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Replacement For Corn In Feed

" The starch in corn, which is not in the distillers grain, brings a necessary energy ingredient for intramuscular fattening. "

The lack of starch in DDG while grazing cattle and feeding DDG is a big plus in my book.
 
Our local ethanol plant has been giving away the wet distillars grain for the last month 24 semi loads a day their dryer is broke .It cost $210 per load for trucking from the plant to my yard we got 30 loads its 65% moisture we let it set for 2 weeks where they dumped it it seemed to dry down some than I pushed it up in a big pile and tarped it with plastic.I have been feeding it to our butcher hogs, fat steers, chicken's and soon all replacements and cows it's cheaper than hay and I have alot of poor hay to use up.
 
I've fed a 50/50 by weight mix of DDG and cracked corn from weaning all through the winter to my own calves. Calves love the stuff and do well on it. The cracked corn adds some body to the DDG which is pretty fluffy and wants to blow away by itself. The oil content of the DDG helps settle the dust in the cracked corn. I worked my calves up to about 12 lbs/hd/day and grazed them on native winter pasture or if weather conditions made it necessary on some days I fed them hay. When spring came I tapered off when they started losing interest in coming to the feed bunks.
 
I have been using WDGS and MWDGS for years and the cows love it. This year a plant 45miles away was selling it for $12 a ton plus freight so the delivered cost was about 18.50. I mixed it 80-20 with straw and packed it in a bunker and tarped it. Seems to work good and cheap. This was done with the WDGS that is about 75% moisture.
 

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