Posted by Leroy on May 02, 2017 at 05:32:57 from (69.88.204.212):
In Reply to: Grinding Pig Feed posted by Fullers Farmalls on May 01, 2017 at 18:13:09:
Do you have any access to any hay? If you do get some and run it in that mill and mix it in that hog feed. Better than buying the vitamins and minerals but you still do need some minerals and salt mixed in. And any size screen will work but the larger the holes the better. We had dairy as well as the hogs. So when we were baling hay all the chaff that aculmiated from putting the hay in we ground and put in the hog feed. There was a company a few miles from us that made what was called alfalfa meal and sold in 50@ bags at the elevator. We bought that for quite a while before we got our own mill. Now the chaff that came from handling the bales was mostly from the leaves and is the best part of the hay plant. The mill bought all the junk hay that nobody wanted to feed and mixed it with top quality hay to get a certain level of proteen. We never had our meal tested but am sure it had a feed value of at least 3 times the boughten feed as it came from the best part of good hay. Hogs do need what is in hay to do good and if they have access to hay in field they will eat it same as a cow or horse will. If you can do that your pigs will be healthier and grow faster. And a 10" mill will do it as that is what we had. Does not have to be a roughige mill. 800# corn to 200# oats plus 100# hay chaff ground. The pigs will love it. I think it possibly has been as long since we had livestalk as your Dad is old.
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