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Show Feeding Plan Worked Out For Farmers Of Beaver Co. County Agent Lew Mar Price, who recently returned from a series of conferences held In Logan, reports re-ports that much of the work of the Extension Service was devoted to the subject of winter feeding and supplemental rations, owing to the shortage of feed over the entire state. The following plans worked out by the member sof the Extension Exten-sion department should be of great value to the farmers and dairymen of this valley: Inventory your available feed and livestock in order to cut feed bills as much as possible through ;the winter. Use grain to replace some roughage where hay supply is short. The daily roughage allowance for livestock whether in form of hay, straw, pasturage or range should not fall below 20 lbs. for dairy cattle, cat-tle, and 2 pounds for ewes. Estimated forage and grain requirement (figure ration for young stock) . Daily Feed Total Feed Hay Grain Hay Grain V (6 Months) Horse working: Alfalfa i or wild hay wintering 12-18 48 2200j-3200 720-1440 Wild hay or bright straw 12-18 light 2200-3200 (6 Months) Milking cows: Alfalfa 20-30 4-5 3600-5400 720-900 Young and Dry cows: Alfalfa 10-15 2-3 1800-2700 360-640 (4 Months) Beef, wintering: Wild hay, straw or alfalfa 12-18 2-4 1440-2160 240-480 Beef fattening: Alfalfa 12-18 5-10 1800-2700 760-1500 (6 Monthsl Sheep, wintering ewes: Alfalfa 3 640 90 (4 Months) Fattening lambs: Alfalfa 2.5 1 300 120 (4 Months) Swine, fattening Alfalfa 5 4-6 60 480-720 (6 Months) Swine .growing: Alfalfa 1.0 2-4 180 360-720 (6 Months) Brood sows: Alfalfa 2-4 5-7 360-720 900-1260 Grain allowance is low to allow for idle periods. Grain is only figured with minimumroughage allowance. Average Replacement Value 1 pound of the grains' will replace 1.5 pounds of alfalfa hay. 1 pound of cottonseed cake replaces 2 lbs. grain jor 3 lbs. of alfalfa. 2 to 3 pounds of corn silage equals 1 pound of hay. !5 Vfc to 6 Yz pounds of wot beet pulp equals 1 pound of hay. Horses (working): With a shortage short-age of alfalfa, feed 1 lb. of hay and 1 lb. of grain per cwt. liveweight of animals; otherwise use 1 lbs. of hay and lbs. of grain per cwt. liveweight. Replace part of the alfalfa al-falfa with carbonaceous roughages such as cereal hays, wild hay, fodder or stover if available. In feeding heavy grain rations mix 10 bran or cut hay with ground or rolled barley or wheat to avoid indigestion. indiges-tion. Horses (idle) : Use carbonaceous roughage or good, bright, well-stacked well-stacked straw. Add a light grain feed if there is none in the straw. Use an occasional feed of alfalfa with straw. Dairy Cattle: Amounts of feed necessary to carry a dairy cow producing pro-ducing 5600 lbs. milk and 175 lbs. of butter fat through 7 winter months. 3.5 to 4 tons of alfalfa, 3 tons alfalfa, ton grain, 2.2 tons alfalfa, 3.4 tons silage, ton grain, 2.1 tons alfalfa, 7 tons wet beet pulp, y2 ton grain, 2.5 tons alfalfa, o tons beet tops, ton grain. Beef Cattle (wintering) : If roughage is short or of poor quality qual-ity supplement with grain or cottonseed cotton-seed cake. In replacement part of the forage ration with grain, use 2 to 4 lbs1, of coarse ground wheat or barley with a short feed of alfalfa or good, bright, wild hay; use cottonseed cotton-seed cake with poor quality rough age or straw. Feed to lbs. of cake daily to young stuff, 1 to 2 lbs. daily to cows. Beef Cattle (fattening): On full feed, feed up to 1 of liveweight in grain; supplement 'alfalfa with silage, sil-age, fodder or sugar beet by-products. Sheep (wintering), suggested rations: ra-tions: (1) 3 lbs. alfalfa, lb. barley bar-ley or wheat; (2) 2 lbs. alfalfa, 2 lbs. silage or pulp, V2 lb. barley or wheat. (3) Winter brush range, 1 lb. alfalfa,' lb. barley or wheat. (4) Winter brush range, good condition, con-dition, y4 to lb. cottonseed cake. (5) Winter brush range, 2-3 lbs. pulp or silage, lb. cottonseed cake. Sheep (fattening lambs) : (1) 2-3 lbs. alfalfa, to 1 lb. wheat and barley. (2) 1 y2 lbs. alfalfa, 2 lbs. corn silage or 3 Mi lbs. wet pulp, 1 lb. barley, wheat or corn. Swine (brood sows): Feed green leafy alfalfa hay in rack with 2 lbs. grain per cwt. liveweight. A good grain mixture consists of: ground wheat or barley, 200 lbs. ground oats, 100 lbs., salt, 3 lbs. If skim milk or buttermilk is available re- feed gradually increase ration to a full grain feed. A good grain mixture mix-ture at this point is ground wheat or barley, 4 00 lbs.; ground oats, 200 lbs.; shorts, 200 lbs.; salt, 8 lbs. This may be full fed in addition to alfalfa hay in rack and dairy byproducts. by-products. Swine (fattening): Ground wheat or barley, if properly supplemented with protein of good quality, are practically equal to corn for finishing finish-ing pigs. During fattening period, pigs if self fed will average about 6 pounds of grain per cwt. liveweight. Dairy by-products furnish the ibest and cheapest protein supplement for fattening pigs. Feed one-half to one gallon of skim milk or buttermilk butter-milk per head daily. 2 to 3 pounds of the dairy by-product will replace a pound of the daily grain feed. In addition, feed leafy, green alfalfa In place a part of the grain ration at the rate of 2 to 3 pounds of milk per pound of grain. During gestation gesta-tion period brood sows need plenty of iprotein and minerals. Alfalfa furnishes protein and calcium while dairy by-products furnish protein, calcium and phosphorus. When sow has farrowed and is back on rack. If dairy by-products are not available feed tankage or the following follow-ing mixture: tankage (60 protein), pro-tein), 2 parts cottonseed or linseed oil meal, 1 part alfalfa meal or leaves, 1 part. Fall Feeds To supply the needs for more hay and pasture this fall, it is recommended recom-mended that available land which has either been fallowed or from which a crop has been removed, and which can be irrigated, be prepared for planting now by irrigating and harrowing. After harrowing, bow any of the following: fall wheat and rye (1 bushel of each per acre), oats and field peas (1 bushel of each per acre). These may all be sown with a regular grain drill. Another fall crop which will give an abundance of succulent feed for farm animals is fall turnips. These should be planted in rows far enough apart to permit horse cultivation, culti-vation, and at the rate of about 2 pounds per acre. Roadside weeds, sweet clover, Russian thistle and Australian salt bush (cut before maturity) will all help in the winter maintenance of livestock where alfalfa and other forage is short. The trench silo will conserve surplus sur-plus or emergency roughage efficiently. effic-iently. Corn or cane may be ensiled in bundles or cut through an ensilagi cutter. Apply moisture liberally to sides to avoid drying out and spoilage. spoil-age. Sunflowers should be cut for silage sil-age when Vi to 13 in bloom. They have about V-i the feeding value of corn silage. Russian thistle should be cut when in bloom and quickly stacked or ensiled. In feeding it, care should be taken not to leave it long exposed to the air. Cottonseed cake contains 3 Mi times tim-es as much protein as alfalfa and is high in phosphorus. Good emergency emer-gency protein concentrate for use with short range forage or poor quality roughage. Feed Yi to 1 lb. daily to young stock, 1 to 2 pounds to cows. Poultry: Many poultrymen in determining de-termining their feed requirements, fail to consider the feed needed for the entire year including that needed need-ed for the chicks and growing pullets pul-lets during the spring and summer months. Some have even been gull- I ty of selling feed in the fall and buying it back at an advanced price n the spring. For this reason the feed requirements are given for poultry of different ages for the entire en-tire year. Where the grain for the poultry is raised and mixed on the farm a satisfactory scratch feed can be secured by using 60 wheat, 26 barley and 15 oats. The alfalfa al-falfa requirement in addition to that found in the mash is about 3 lbs. per bird per year and the amount of straw required (for litter is about iy2 tons per year per 100 birds. Extension Service Utah State Agricultural College Livestock Feeding Committee By E. .J MAYNARD Chairman |
