Ear Corn

[ATOZ]

Has anybody had much luck using ear corn for a grower heifer ratio?? If so would you share your ration with us??

Thanks

 

[afhm]

Never used it for a heifer grower ration.  Used to gring it up and use it mixed in with my steer feed to put the finish on one in a hurry and keep them eating, they loved it.

 

[Gary]

We also ground it for fats,great feed.
Almost makes me miss the good old days.
I would think it would make an excellent heifer feed if you can still find someone with a picker.

 

[beefy08]

We've used it to feed our heifers, didn't really have a ration but they loved it and the cob added good fill.

 

[Dusty]

Ground ear corn is the best cattle feed you will ever feed.  You can still find a few old boys that still pick ear corn, but they are getting few and far between.

 

[jbw]

Alot of people have gone back to putting up earlage. I like this better than ground ear corn, you don't get the dust and the loss.

 

[chambero]

Educate me on this one.  What is the difference b/t ear corn and corn normally used in cattle feed?

 

[mooch]

Educate me on this one.  What is the difference b/t ear corn and corn normally used in cattle feed?

The cob gets ground and husk gets ground with the kernels.More roughage in a ton of feed .Good stuff

 

[inthebarnagain]

Grind 1600 pounds of ear corn with 400 pounds of Purina Gran-4-T-fyer.  It works awesome.  Saves a ton of money also.

 

[ATOZ]

Thanks for all the respone !! I use grand T now with ground corn so I was glad you had use it with ear corn. Do i need to add any oats ??

 

[inthebarnagain]

Thanks for all the respone !! I use grand T now with ground corn so I was glad you had use it with ear corn. Do i need to add any oats ??

We didn't.  The only thing we did do was add some beet pulp to one of the heifers because she was a VERY easy keeper and was getting too fat on it.  I wish we had some ear corn right now!  If you are going to feed it to steers you will have to add supplemental fat when the they reach the finishing stage because it needs a little extra to finish a steer but it is perfect for the heifers all the way through.

 

[CAB]

  Like Dusty said, ground ear corn is God's perfect cattle feed. It's 60% concentrate & 40% roughage made by mother nature. A lot of great fats have went to town  self fed ab lib ground ear corn.

 

[colosteers]

Have fed lots of ground ear corn and its great stuff.

Only advice I have is that feeding finishing ration of 80% ear corn and 20% Purina fortifier is to much corn and needs to be cut with something.

Yes - learned the hard way.    Acidosis from to much corn.

Figure will still use the fortifier and ear corn, but will not be 80% corn.    Figured that the cob and husk was enough to dilute the ration, but 2 years of on and off mild trouble (on and off feed, light bloat, poor gains, ect).

Not quite sure yet the solution, but will cut with something.    Any suggestions anyone -- beet pulp, or cotton seed, was told that oats was high energy and would not buffer acidosis?  Was feeding grass hay to.

Have back grounded lots of calves and raised replacement hfrs on ear corn and things been great, but not feeding as much or pushing them like these show steers.

Have a good one