Posted by Leroy on July 03, 2011 at 10:15:49 from (69.88.223.179):
In Reply to: do pigs eat hay? posted by big hunter on July 02, 2011 at 18:17:57:
For the hogs we would take all the chaff of the wagons and save it after unloading the hay for the cows and when we got enough we would set up the old hammermill and grind the hay and stor it in burlap bags and when we would need a batch of hog feed we would load up that hay along with the oats and go to the elevator to get the feed ground, the corn was stored at the elevator as we had no way of storing high moisture shelled corn. That ground hay was about double in feed value of the alfalfa meal that the elevator sold for that purpose. They would buy all the worst hay and just add enough good to make minum value feed and charge 10 times the value of the hay. Did not need to add all the vitamins and minerals to get the nutrition the hogs needed. Been too many years but think it was about 200# oats to 1,000# corn and about 150-200# of hay per batch. Never fed hogs, chickens or cows without the oats. Chickens would also use the ground hay. Using the chaf off the wagons for that you got about 4 times as many leaves per pound of ground hay for feed value but if we ran out of that would grind up some of the best hay bales and would have to ad a bit more to the ration.
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