The Rural Voice, 1998-03, Page 57Advice
Ontario has implemented the
economic indexes (Beef Builder and
Prime Plus) in the bull test programs
to identify bulls that will produce
progeny to meet the market targets.°
Alternate feeds for
beef and dairy cows
By Douglas Dickie, P.Ag.,
OMAFRA Livestock Advisor
Alternate feeds are feeds which
are not normally kept for cows or
young stock. An example of this is
corn stover, or what is left after corn
is combined. This feed has sufficient
energy to carry dry beef cows when
grazed, but is not worthwhile for
milking beef cows or dairy animals.
Other feeds such as potatoes, carrots,
onions, parsnips and cabbage leaves
can be fed, as long as the amount
provided can be limited. Mature
cattle should not be fed more than 35
lbs. of potatoes, 60 lb. of carrots, 7
Ib. of onions, 4 lb. of parsnips, or 25
Ib. of cabbage leaves per day.
A large number of wet milling
products are available. Some are
good sources of protein, such as wet
distillers grain, wet brewers grain,
wet corn gluten feed, brewers yeast
and corn steep liquor. Dry milling
products, which are good sources of
protein include the above wet feeds
dried, plus many more which include
corn gluten meal, wheat shorts, wheat
germ, penicillin cake, soybean meal,
canola meal, linseed oil meal, and
raw, roasted, extruded and cooked
soybeans.
Milling feeds high in energy
include corn hominy grits, oils, fats
and molasses. Quite a number of
other milling feeds are available,
which contribute fiber to cattle diets.
These include such feeds as,
dehydrated alfalfa meal, soya hulls,
oat hulls, GSPs or ground screening
pellets, and barley hulls.
A number of other feeds are
available to replace such feeds as
hay. These include soybean straw,
canola straw, straw from small grains
and corn stover.
Some other alternate feeds come
from food by-products such as
bakery waste, composted food by-
products and candy waste products.°
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