How to make CORN SILAGE in a BARREL! Make high quality feed with crop residue!
In this video, I'm going to show you how to make corn silage in a barrel. corn silage is a high-quality feed alternative that is perfect for livestock and is a great way to reduce waste on your homestead.
This video is a great resource if you're looking for ways to reduce your waste, and to improve the quality of your livestock feed. We'll show you how to make corn silage in a barrel, and explain the benefits of using this feed alternative. If you're looking for a way to save money on your livestock feed, then this video is for you!
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Thanks much! 👋
Thank you!! I'm absolutely going to do this this year! I already have everything to do it including a mulcher and corn stalks.
Yeah give it a go! Just make sure you seal the barrel really well to exclude all oxygen.
Very impressive
Thank you! 🙂
Love your stuff, I get a new idea from almost every video. Question, you say you are going to supplement your steers feed with the silage. How much silage would you feed a day?
Ideally this would be fed free choice but I only have a small amount which I will just use to supplement the hay and grain I am feeding and when it's gone it's gone. I will probably mix a few lbs. per day to the total ration.
Great presentation. To be honest, I was concerned about using molasses as it is an expensive commodity, which I use daily in my diet, so I appreciated you sharing that a low grade formula will work well for this.
Yeah substandard grade is cheap in comparison to the unsulphured backstrap molasses. Your feed store may stock it or may get it for you if you ask. 😉
I intend to use this to supplement winter feed for chickens. I am using sorghum and will experiment to see if I need molasses since the sorghum has sugar content. Thank you.
That's awesome. I would love to hear how it works for you chickens. Let me know how it goes. 👌
Thank you
You are welcome 😊
Pretty cool. Is this something you have done in the past? I had bought a gas powered chipper and it absolutely sucked. I used it for 2 hours then took it to an auction house. It couldn't handle my branches. Seems like i should have held onto it for this. I'm thinking sudan grass (or its hybrid) as it has smaller stalks than corn. Interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching and glad you dug the video. I haven't made this for years but I first learned how to make this in high school from my ag teacher. A mulcher/shredder would be the ticket for doing this. 👌
I find this fascinating and like the format of your videos. Hoping to raise some sheep or cattle one day. Is this something that could be done on a smaller scale like 5 gal buckets. Hoping I could do smaller batches over the growing season. Wondering also is there a reason you resealed after 36 hours? Also wondering if water you used was unchlorinated.
Our water is unchlorinated from a well. Yes it can be done in buckets provided it is well packed and excluded from oxygen. The First 36 hours is a more biologically active period and it can tend to off gas and expel excess liquid. Once it settles down resealing is a good idea. Thanks for watching and good luck!
Can you share with us the brand of molasses you use? I'm having trouble finding it. We use quite a bit at our worm farm, and blackstrap is getting pretty pricey, even buying it by the gallon.
It's 79.5 brix cane molasses manufactured for Farmers Warehouse.. There is no brand associated with the label. If you want to see the label shoot me an email.
Do you have to put molasses in? Wats its ourpose could you just pack with grass?
The molasses is the food source for the bacteria. Without it fermentation will not occur and instead you would have an anaerobic green slimy end product.
Harmful content alert 🚨!! Lol just kidding. Love the content
LOL anything that is self-sustaining is harmful. LOL
Haha! 😉
I see people where iam from using jaggery instead of molasses , 1kg of jaggery cost half a dollar i think
I suppose jaggery made from sugar cane would work awesome as well. 👌
great idea, but this small volume, although a good example of a bigger process, will not support any animal for a long time
There was never any claim as to how many animals could be fed with what was made in this video. It was merely intended to show what can be done with excess crop residue. Sorry this wasn't clear.
as a result of your video, I am now embarking on a pilot program in delivering low scale silage production is an Asian country. I am now negotiating with their Dept of Agriculture and animal husbandry in developing a pilot program to achieve self-efficiency in remote dry farming areas, So, many thanks.