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Feeding Shell Corn to Drought Cows ?
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<blockquote data-quote="bmoore87" data-source="post: 1700127" data-attributes="member: 21684"><p><h2><em>Processing Corn</em></h2><p><em>Even though corn can be fed whole with satisfactory results, cracking or rolling prior to feeding will increase digestibility by 5 to 10 percent. In most instances, grinding or rolling corn will not markedly improve average daily gain, but proper processing will improve feed conversion efficiency.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>As the proportion of corn in the diet and the cost of corn increase, the benefits of processing also increase because corn is supplying a greater portion of the energy. When corn is fed whole, the animal must process the corn by mastication (chewing). Rolling or cracking corn for use in a mixed ration may facilitate better mixing.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Don't know how to do links but this is a quote from a ndsu study. just google a lot more of the same but also some supporting shell corn. most agree you get better digestibility rolling it but that doesn"t always mean better gain but better utilization. When you see shell do better it's because the cattle are a lot of times partially acidotic so a cooler diet can be better for them. i always give the example of the line backer selfeeder program Dad used to do couple hundred pounds of pellets and the rest shell corn. Only reason it didn't burn them up is they only absorbed what they chewed so it worked kinda as a buffer</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bmoore87, post: 1700127, member: 21684"] [HEADING=1][I]Processing Corn[/I][/HEADING] [I]Even though corn can be fed whole with satisfactory results, cracking or rolling prior to feeding will increase digestibility by 5 to 10 percent. In most instances, grinding or rolling corn will not markedly improve average daily gain, but proper processing will improve feed conversion efficiency. As the proportion of corn in the diet and the cost of corn increase, the benefits of processing also increase because corn is supplying a greater portion of the energy. When corn is fed whole, the animal must process the corn by mastication (chewing). Rolling or cracking corn for use in a mixed ration may facilitate better mixing.[/I] Don’t know how to do links but this is a quote from a ndsu study. just google a lot more of the same but also some supporting shell corn. most agree you get better digestibility rolling it but that doesn”t always mean better gain but better utilization. When you see shell do better it’s because the cattle are a lot of times partially acidotic so a cooler diet can be better for them. i always give the example of the line backer selfeeder program Dad used to do couple hundred pounds of pellets and the rest shell corn. Only reason it didn’t burn them up is they only absorbed what they chewed so it worked kinda as a buffer [I][/I] [/QUOTE]
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