feeding bulls question?

solorpower

i am feeding a couple of bulls at the moment, the are on meal ad-lib since the begining of the year.
i was advised to change from giving them ging them silage to straw as the sulage i had at the time was very wet and green.
on saturday i started using a new batch of silage bales that are much dryer. the are more like haylage then silage, it is 2nd crop silage and looks very good quality?
should i stick with the straw or give them the haylage?
they eat very little straw and are mad for this new dry silage?

on the river

solorpower wrote: »

i am feeding a couple of bulls at the moment, the are on meal ad-lib since the begining of the year.
i was advised to change from giving them ging them silage to straw as the sulage i had at the time was very wet and green.
on saturday i started using a new batch of silage bales that are much dryer. the are more like haylage then silage, it is 2nd crop silage and looks very good quality?
should i stick with the straw or give them the haylage?
they eat very little straw and are mad for this new dry silage?

give him what they need silage. all the better for you more weight gain

Farmer Pudsey

I would give them the silage as well. Dry silage (over 30 DM) is what I always feed bulls with ration as I find that you can feed them longer. While it may take a little longer to finish it is cheaper and they can stay on ration linger than ad-lib meal and straw. I always give access to straw as well they only eat very little. A bale of staw would do 20 bulls 10-14 days.

solorpower

thanks for that, i will give them the silage and some straw but i cannot see them eat much straw with nice silage and meal to keep them going.