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Everyone is Happy at Feeding Time

5/17/2015

 
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The goats and Longhorns eat pasture most of the time.  In the winter they eat haylige or hay.  When I come to the farm, all the animals know it is time to eat grain.  I feed them a mixture of distillers grain and corn meal.  Distillers grains are a byproduct of whiskey and fuel ethanol production. They have a very long history of being fed to livestock.  I am usually at the farm for 2-3 days and I put the grain out upon my arrival usually around 11 pm and again before I leave.  I put out 150 pounds each time.  I spread it out between 4 troughs so the animals have plenty of room to eat.  The smallest cows/newest arrivals get pushed back into the pasture but the tiny baby goats have no problem standing in the middle of a trough and getting plenty to eat.  In general everyone seems happy.  Even the small cows eat plenty; when the others are finished they get to come back in.  I think once the smaller newly arrived cows have been around for a month they will get better treatment.  Some people have told me the cows will over eat and get sick.  I have not seen this as a problem.  There is usually a lot left over the next day and they will go back out to the pasture to eat grass before coming back to finish all of the grain.
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Barbara Miller
5/18/2015 01:56:42 am

Hi. Your cows are looking really good! Longhorn Cows generally will not overeat if they have other good things to eat, like quality hay or grass. Horses and especially ponies will definitely over eat and founder. The grain will go through the cow and can be seen in the "patties", but the blessing is their multiple stomachs.

Mitchell Stickler link
5/18/2015 03:36:12 am

Thanks Barbara for your insight and help.


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    Andrew Stickler is a student at Clemson University.   Mitchell Stickler is a Lewes Delaware dermatologist.

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