Slick bunk management is when cattle clean their bunks 24 hours after feeding. Slick bunk management is the process of prescribing the appropriate amount of feed to cattle every day.

Some costs associated with preconditioning programs include: labor, vaccinations, death loss, additional feed costs, and ...

Finally, and most importantly for the $8.3 billion beef cattle industry in Kansas, the beef cross calves, or composite cattle, can be fed efficiently in the feedlot.

Getting cattle started right is very closely related to topic of bunk management and feed delivery. We want to adjust the energy content of the diet so avoid overloading the rumen with more starch ...

Tracking Feed Bunk Scores An SDSU research study conducted by Bierman and Pritchard (1996) compared cattle fed all they would eat to those fed just enough so that all the feed was consumed in a 24 ...

Bunk management records should include feed deliveries and bunk scores from at least the previous four days. Feed call decisions should also be based on cattle behavior/activity, stool appearance ...

CRAWFORD - Farmhood Fields LLC, a proposed farm-to-table living community owned by Zeke Alenick, is suing the town over the right to build a cattle feed bunk on its Crans Mill Road property. Aleni… ...

James C. Carlson, Jeremy W. Ellis, Shelagh K. Tupper, Alan B. Franklin, George M. Linz, The effect of European starlings and ambient air temperature on Salmonella enterica contamination within cattle ...

The value of all feed lost at 5 percent was nearly $175,000 per year, based on 2012 feed prices, compared with the 12 percent, or nearly $420,000, of lost feed the previous year.

This means feeding 40-41kg DM at 12.5MJ/kg ME. A farm might typically feed an average of 26kg of mixed ration for each cow in the bunk each day.