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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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… ...

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.

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 ...

Others have lined feed bunks with plastic and filled them with water. The water should be fresh and clean. This will promote drinking. Cattle do not like the taste of stale, dirty water.

“Cattle need to know that there is feed in the bunk and if you just dump the concentrate in there they may not find it, so I recommend producers also put some long-stem hay in with the feed so ...

“Because those muddy areas are typically around feed bunks, just move that feed bunk to a different area,” said Zaluski. “Let that area dry out. Try to get some smooth surface.” ...

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 ...