WET DISTILLERS
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RICH PORTERPORTER FARMS
WET DISTILLERS
STARTING CALVES
WET DISTILLERS, GREAT FOR WEANING
CALVES
Great nutrition profile
Cattle prefer wet to dry
Can add supplement to mix
Reasonable price
PROBLEMS WITH WET
Need access to it, semi load lots
Need feed wagon
Need much longer mixing time
Bunk life when mixed – half day
Bunk life in pile – 1 to 4 weeks
MY RATIONS – AS FED
½ Wet distillers
¼ Ground hay
¼ Ground corn
Supplement of course
1 gm CTC/cwt for 5 days of week
LIMIT FEED FIRST 30 DAYS
Sounds stupid, works great
2.2% of BW on a DMB is guide
Clean up feed in 2-3 hours
WHY LIMIT FEED???
Prevent overeating days 14 to 21
Very easy to spot sick cattle
Calf can’t wait a few hours to eat
Return to grass when bunk empty
“RANGE CUBE” FEEDING
GREAT SUPPLEMENT ON GRASS
Similar to “Super Gold”
But much cheaper
DISTILLERS HAVE:
High protein (28%)
Digestible fiber
Fat (11%)
Phosphorus
NEEDS ONLY Ca
Can add:
Regular supplement
CTC/OTC
FEED WITH REGULAR FEED WAGON
Use “floater” tires
Add supplement
Feed on the ground, little waste
3 Times a week
GOAL OF ROTATIONAL GRAZING IS BETTER GAINS
Can get easily with distillers
Combine 5 pastures into one
4 Less gates to open
4 Pastures rested Aug & Sept
Consume grass otherwise burned
“TYPICAL RATE” IS ½% BW ON DMB
¼% to 1% can work
600# = 3# DMB or 9# As Fed
“May” save grass 20%
Late season, 1 lb more gain/day
LIMITATIONS
Pastures must be close
Must control pasture
Need access to wet distillers
Impact on grass long term????
PROFITABILITY
20% Distillers + 80% Silage or
20% Distillers + 80% “Waste” grass
Does anyone have a calculator?
Graze any time no snow cover
HARD DATA
I have none but an eye ball
KSU people can give data
Extend grazing season, and use grass that would be burned
Opportunity for producers to share loads and a feed wagon
Effects of supplementing dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) to heavy, yearling stocker cattle for 90 days during the late grazing period.
Grazing Supplementation Treatment
Control DDGS (1% BW DDMI)
Standard Error
ADG, 0-45 Days 2.02 lbsa 3.39 lbsb 0.153
ADG, 45-90 Days
-0.57 lbsa 1.44 lbsb 0.134
ADG, 0-90 Days 0.76 lbsa 2.44 lbsb 0.116
Total Weight Gain
68.5 lbsa 220.7 lbsb 10.47
a-bMeans within a row with different superscripts differ (P<0.05).
•808 lb average starting weight for the steers in the study•Grazing occurred from August 10 to November 10 of 2009•No effect on quality or yield grade of the finished cattle.•Funded by The Beef Checkoff
A. Stickel, T. Houser, K.C. Olson, J. Drouillard, B. Gerlach, A. Pacheco, M. Macek, G. Parsons, K. Miller, L. Thompson, M. Dikeman, J. Unruh, and D. Blasi
QUESTIONS??