2011•Lincoln (University of Nebraska)Open access
Replacement of Grazed Forage with WDGS and Poor Quality Hay Mixtures
Sandra Villasanti, Leslie Aaron Stalker, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Walter H. Schacht, Jerry D. Volesky
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Abstract
A grazing study was conducted at the Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory, Whitman, Neb., to evaluate the effects of mixtures of wet distillers grains (WDGS) and straw or hay on grazed forage intake. There was no difference in ADG between the control and 70% hay/30% WDGS; however, steers supplemented with 60:40 blends of straw or hay with WDGS had higher ADG than the other two treatments. Range forage intake was decreased by 44% to 54% when steers were supplemented with the mixes. Feeding a mixture of WDGS and low-quality harvested-forage to cattle grazing rangeland may allow increasing stocking rate without decreasing animal performance.
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