Can I use oats as a feed for beef cattle? – Beef Cattle - Extension
For beef cattle, the most common applications are as a creep feed for growing calves and as an energy supplement for forage-fed animals. In addition, oats work well for starting calves on feed. The energy content of oats is related to its test weight or bushel weight.
Because of its high hull and fiber content, oats is an ideal grain for starting cattle on feed, whether they are new animals coming into the feedlot, calves on a creep feeder, or newly weaned calves.
Should I Be Growing Oat For Cattle Feed? - CowCaretaker
2022年9月3日 · Many farmers use oat as the major grain when starting cattle on feed. Oat has high fiber and hull content so its starch ferments easily. The lower energy density makes oat an ideal livestock feed for newly weaned calves and new mature cattle on a feedlot.
Feeding Oats to Cattle - Practical Farmers of Iowa
2021年6月3日 · Adding oats into a livestock and cropping system can add diversity, help control input costs when paired with legume cover crops and provide soil health and water quality benefits all while delivering the same quality carcass.
Grain Rations for Beef Cattle: A Complete Guide to ... - Cattle Daily
2023年10月27日 · Grain rations refer to cereal grains like corn, barley, wheat, oats, or milo that are fed to cattle as an energy supplement. The starch in grains is highly digestible and provides more energy per pound than roughages like hay or grass.
Feeding Small Grains to Beef Cattle - Penn State Extension
2022年11月10日 · Because of the high fiber content coupled with a relatively high energy value, oats are most effectively used with younger cattle to transition them to a grain diet. This can include using oats as a creep feed for nursing calves.
2021年6月20日 · Oats as 22% of a total mixed ration compared to a standard corn-dominant TMR resulted in no statistical difference in body weights, cattle performance or mortality. Oat-fed cattle yielded a higher percentage of select carcasses than standard TMR fed cattle. “Overall, oats were an effective replacement of corn and cattle
Average daily gain and dry matter intake of calves fed rolled barley, rolled oat or whole oat. Based on the results of this trial, it is evident that the new variety of oat (CDC SO-I) is an excellent feed oat for backgrounding cattle and does not require processing prior to feeding.
What we learned feeding oats to cattle - Sustainable Food Lab
2021年11月2日 · Together Sustainable Food Lab, Practical Farmers of Iowa, McDonald’s, and Couser Cattle Company set out to answer these questions. Couser fed a group of cattle a ration with 22% oats and compared performance to a group of cattle fed a standard corn ration. The feeding trial successfully answered the initial question about animal performance.
Oat grain as a cattle feed has an advantage over corn in a higher protein content. Therefore, less supplemental protein would be needed. However, oat grain is substantially higher in fiber than corn grain, thus resulting in a lower energy value. For similar levels of production as with corn grain, less roughage should be fed with oats.