Cows need a lot of fiber in their diet, they can break down some nutrients from it if it has any. Now, wood is mighty low on nutrients.....
That said, would have to be careful what type of wood, and the cooking and treating of it would not be for free, and I'd guess a large percent of ddgs from an ethanol plant as well as a mineral package is mixed in with it, making the sawdust portion a rather small part of the total feed.
Back years ago when we couldn't get $2 for a bu of corn here, I remember reading an article where a dairy farm was experimenting with using no forage for the cows, he fed plastic chips (looked like tiny Pringles chips...) along with the grain and mineral package. They washed the manure and recycled the plastic chips. The idea was, with grain so cheap, it didn't pay to transport and shelter bulk forages compared to this system where the chips were fake roughage. Was interesting reading, obviously it never caught on, and now with different economics in the grain and hay world, folks are exploring different ideas in a whole different direction.
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