Winter Feed - Barley v's Baled Silage

patsy_mccabe

I am trying to budget winter feed at the moment. Thought I would be a few bales short all along but with the wet weather, I deffo will.
I'm thinking of stretching the bales out with a two way barley mix. I used this before and it seemed better value than baled silage with all the messing with hauling etc.

Question is approx how many kg's of barley feeding is there in a bale of silage?

patsy_mccabe

Says below that 'In energy terms, a 600kg cow requires about 5.5 UFL for maintenance (the equivalent of 5.5kg of standard barley)'.

So by feeding 1.1Kg's of rolled barley per day to a suckler cow, you would take care of 20% of the cows energy needs. Or in baled silage terms, 80 bales could be stretched to the equivalent of 100bales.
Would this be right?

https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/feeding-the-suckler-cow-to-the-correct-requirements-25882841.html

charolais0153

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Says below that 'In energy terms, a 600kg cow requires about 5.5 UFL for maintenance (the equivalent of 5.5kg of standard barley)'.

So by feeding 1.1Kg's of rolled barley per day to a suckler cow, you would take care of 20% of the cows energy needs. Or in baled silage terms, 80 bales could be stretched to the equivalent of 100bales.
Would this be right?

https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/feeding-the-suckler-cow-to-the-correct-requirements-25882841.html

Id say theyd be at least 650kg if not over 700kg.

larthehar

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I am trying to budget winter feed at the moment. Thought I would be a few bales short all along but with the wet weather, I deffo will.
I'm thinking of stretching the bales out with a two way barley mix. I used this before and it seemed better value than baled silage with all the messing with hauling etc.

Question is approx how many kg's of barley feeding is there in a bale of silage?

Depends on the quality of the silage and what you are feeding to.. suckler cows need maintaining, weanlings need high protein, finishing cattle need high energy..

Also what is in the barley mix?

On Dry Matter terms, a bale of silage would be circa 30%DM, barley would circa 85%DM..
Energy, barley is 1 UFL and silage is 0.7 to 0.8 UFL pending DMD..

orm0nd

we're presently getting quotes for a barley/maize/soyahull mix,

a bit apprehensive about the quality of the barley, got samples from 2 outlets and it didn't look great

Attie

orm0nd wrote: »

we're presently getting quotes for a barley/maize/soyahull mix,

a bit apprehensive about the quality of the barley, got samples from 2 outlets and it edidn't look great

Merchant has the life screened out of it all your getting is the shows

Gawddawggonnit

Attie wrote: »

Merchant has the life screened out of it all your getting is the shoues

What are shows/shoues?

Attie

It's the outer covering of the grain.
So little flour in the mix .