Feeding Barley

rocketjk

Got a few ton of barley of the combine on the basis feed will be expensive this winter, and was woundering what to supplment it with to balance it as best as i can. I was thinking soya and citrus pulp

Anyone do this before and what is the ratio?

Thanks

grumpyfarmer

Depends on the kind of stock your feeding.. for fattening 4:1:1 barley:citrus:distillers is what we used to use, no need for a real high protein feed like soya for them but for young growing stock we used to just up the distillers i.e. 3:1:2. Only ever mix soya in the calf ration for young calves say up to 8 or 9 months of age
oh that's for freshly rolled barley, have no experience with treated stuff...

Insp. Harry Callahan

Finishing bulls at the mo feeding 60% rolled barley/wheat, 25 % soya hulls, 15 % Distillers plus minerals and rumin balancer

grazeaway

Half thinking of buying barley off the combine in the future or maybe settign some barley of my own. We used to grow about 10acres of our own before we would either cut it as arable silage or sell the barley and keep the straw. Used to under sow with grass seed to allow for reseeding.

My question is store and how to feed afterwards. I know a few lads who still have old rollers but dont use them anymore. They would have stored the barley in bags in a loft and then feed it down into the rollers when ever they needed to make up the feeding. with vermit and handeling i doubt that better then meal in silos. How do you keep the barley and then have it for feeding?? do you need to add additives?

yellow50HX

could you buy barley off the combine and get it blown into a meal bin, then put a roller under the chute and let the grain fall as you roll it? Do anyone know if any mills would roll your barley then blow it into you meal bin? How much would this cost. Might be an option

Username John

yellow50HX wrote: »

could you buy barley off the combine and get it blown into a meal bin, then put a roller under the chute and let the grain fall as you roll it? Do anyone know if any mills would roll your barley then blow it into you meal bin? How much would this cost. Might be an option

I don't know much about barley - but would buying it off the combine and putting it in a meal bin be a bad idea, as it could have too high a moisture level?

Would it need to be dried first?

grumpyfarmer

We have proper store with under floor aeration for about 40 ton with an auger feeding mcmaster roller. We would happily put grain up to 17% moisture it with out treatment any higher you'd need propcorn cos it would still heat blower or not especially in frosty weather. to store barley with out blowers you'd want it dried down to about 14% moisture. what is popular around here with lads who don't have the blower is to get a lad to roll the whole lot of their barley in one go and treat it with propcorn and it seems to keep for months if not nearly indefinitely that way... but rolled barley on its only will get stale after a week or 10 days...

yellow50HX

grumpyfarmer wrote: »

We have proper store with under floor aeration for about 40 ton with an auger feeding mcmaster roller. We would happily put grain up to 17% moisture it with out treatment any higher you'd need propcorn cos it would still heat blower or not especially in frosty weather. to store barley with out blowers you'd want it dried down to about 14% moisture. what is popular around here with lads who don't have the blower is to get a lad to roll the whole lot of their barley in one go and treat it with propcorn and it seems to keep for months if not nearly indefinitely that way... but rolled barley on its only will get stale after a week or 10 days...

that might be a better way so. wonder how much it would be/ton to get it dryed, rolled, trreated then blowning back into the bin. if it was good for a few months could get enough for a winter in one go.....

might be an idea for next year

Insp. Harry Callahan

Handiest way we find with barley is to get a guy in to prop and roll it at the same time. grain at 20% moisture,we put on 8-10 litres per ton,any higher moisture 10-12 litres, cost wise it is 1.50 euro per litre if buying 1000litre cage. rolling costs 15euro plus vat. Most of the contractors could do 10ton/hour upwards.
Spent many an hour rolling from half ton bags or shoveling into the wee Frazer roller,never would go back to it,noisy,slow,dusty.