Barley as feed

lab man

Lads would rolled barely be ok for calves and weanlings wats yer thoughts

_Brian

Needs supplemental protein and minerals. We would have added soy to it to raise the P, powdered mineral on top.

TooOldBoots

No would be my thought.
Oats are better, but you'd be still better off with a nut or ration as it has some level of protein and minerals.
If you must then mix with a beef nut to make it more palatable

CHOPS01

TooOldBoots wrote: »

No would be my thought.
Oats are better, but you'd be still better off with a nut or ration as it has some level of protein and minerals.
If you must then mix with a beef nut to make it more palatable

Have done this the last few years with stores. Beef nut mixed roughly 50/50 with the rolled barley. Getting 2kg and stock do well. Also leave a bucket mineral lick in the yard.
Know it would be cheaper to use powered minerals.

Sugarbowl

I always feed it here to cows with nuts and maize/soybean. Give it to calves too mixed with calf but. Never an issue eating it

lab man

Ya they do like it but I just dont see any improvement on them I'll prob go with a few bags of nuts through it aswell

_Brian

lab man wrote: »

Ya they do like it but I just dont see any improvement on them I'll prob go with a few bags of nuts through it aswell

At 11-12% P it will take a fair bit to get small stock growing.

lab man

It's very cheap though 10e for a big bag from a guy from Galway Galway selling it I buy 8 to 10 bags a week of it

Water John

Buy some soya bean meal and shake on top of it in the trough. Put in a mineral bucket or mix some trough the sbm first.

Base price

I always feed young/yearling stock rolled oats with maize meal during their first Winter.
Edit to add - all our young stock get 2 Smartrace mineral boluses in Autumn.