Winter is About Never Ending Feeding

I go to the ranch every Thursday night some weeks.  At other times I go every other Thursday and rarely I will allow 3 weeks between visits.  I usually leave on Saturday night.  Of course at various times during the year I will spend the entire week.  In order to make sure there is enough food out for the livestock, I have expanded my food serving options. 


I feed the livestock haylige continuously throughout the winter.  Every two weeks I put out 300 pounds of grain (corn mixed with distillers grain).  Longhorns will not over eat grain.  When they are full, they layoff until they are hungry again.  Some breeds will eat until they are sick.  It takes 10 cows about 3 days to finish the 300 pounds of grain.  That is 30 pounds of grain per cow per 2 weeks.  I do not count the little that the goats eat.