Mixing feed

[dangerous dan]

I have 3 55 gallon feeders(1050lbs of corn) that are 70% full of corn. I am starting to get a few deer pics on trails but very few at my feeders. I have talked to a few people in my area and they are getting a better responce with a corn/record rack golden deer nugget mix.

I tried, a couple years ago, just putting a bag of record rack in my spin feeder instead of corn and just waiting until the corn was used and it would start spinning record rack. Well after about a month the record rack on the top clumped up and stopped up the feeder.


I was told if you wanna run it in a spin feeder you have to mix it 50/50 and mix it well and it wont clog. Ill probably just cut a couple bags into each feeder for a approx 70/30 mixture.

Well what is an easy way of doing this without breaking my back or wallet. My feeders are currently 70% full of corn.

[jmangrem]

Sweat & blood Mr. Dangerous. Sweat & blood.

My process goes:
1 bag corn, 1 bag peas, 1/3 bag milo and mix with a short handled shovel, repeat.

[T-REX]

I would lower the feed unit and let it drain out into buckets or another drum, then mix and refill.

[Mike Murphey]

If they won't come to corn... they won't come....

[Smart]

If they won't come to corn... they won't come....

Agreed....I can't see getting a better response versus corn. Deer nuggets are basically ground corn with some additional additives made into a dog food or catfish type food pellet.

[airbornehunter]

Well what is an easy way of doing this without breaking my back or wallet. My feeders are currently 70% full of corn.

Corn period is going to break your wallet. I paid 9.30 for a 50# bag and considered myself lucky. They wanted 11 across the street at the regular feed store and both sellers said we will probably be seeing 12-15$ here real soon... If it keeps going up it will be cheaper to feed straight protein than corn. For some helpful advice I know a few people that are mixing cotton seeds and milo in with the corn.

[Smart]

Corn period is going to break your wallet. I paid 9.30 for a 50# bag and considered myself lucky. They wanted 11 across the street at the regular feed store and both sellers said we will probably be seeing 12-15$ here real soon... If it keeps going up it will be cheaper to feed straight protein than corn. For some helpful advice I know a few people that are mixing cotton seeds and milo in with the corn.

Interesting because mine said they were headed down once the midwest gets their harvests in....

[holdem]

I feed a wildgame mix of corn, pellets, milo and soybean in one feeder and can't tell the difference in response from straight corn.

[airbornehunter]

Farmer in the rice dryer said midwest only had 67% of their corn make it. The owner of the dryer said that if the corn ceiling doesn't go up were looking at a big price jump. Wether any of that is true or not I haven't a clue. I am from a small town with a lot of hillbillies so I take everything that is said with a grain of salt. I PRAY they are wrong.

[fritztown]

I mix corn, protein and peas, sometimes milo.
Top it off with an additive.
I'm pretty sure they like it more......
That's the way I feed protein in the offseason, too....

[Smart]

Farmer in the rice dryer said midwest only had 67% of their corn make it. The owner of the dryer said that if the corn ceiling doesn't go up were looking at a big price jump. Wether any of that is true or not I haven't a clue. I am from a small town with a lot of hillbillies so I take everything that is said with a grain of salt. I PRAY they are wrong.

This was posted earlier in the month....hope they are right...



06/30 15:45 CDT Corn prices plunge after USDA reports bumper crop

Corn prices plunge after USDA reports bumper crop

By The Associated Press
Corn prices plunged Thursday after the government reported that U.S. farmers
have planted the second-largest crop in nearly 70 years.

News of the huge crop took investors by surprise. Many had been expecting the
wet weather this spring to keep the annual corn crop small. The only crop that
was bigger in the past 67 years was planted in 2007.

Corn for December delivery fell 30 cents, or 4.6 percent, to settle at $6.205 a
bushel. It was the largest one-day move allowed by futures exchanges.

This year's planted corn crop is 9 percent larger than the average over the
past 10 years. Farmers were highly motivated to plant corn over other crops
like soybeans after the price of corn hit a record of $7.99 a bushel this year.
But John Sanow, an analyst with Telvent DTN in Omaha, Neb., said it is still
far from certain that the corn crop that is actually harvested this year will
be as large as the market seems to be expecting. A return of severely wet
weather or drought could still reduce how much can be harvested and sold.

Expectations that corn supplies would remain tight were a major factor behind a
big increase in corn prices over the past year. Even after Thursday's slump
corn is still up 66 percent over the past 12 months.

"The real key here is going to be harvest," Sanow said. "It doesn't really
matter if it got planted, if it gets flooded."

Wheat futures also fell sharply. Wheat for September delivery fell 60 cents to
$6.1425 bushel. November soybeans fell 29 cents to $12.94 a bushel.

In metals trading, gold for August delivery fell $7.60 to settle at $1,502.80
an ounce. September silver rose 6.3 cents to settle at $34.832 an ounce.

September copper rose 5.85 cents to settle at $4.2825 a pound while October
platinum fell 50 cents to $1,726.10 an ounce. September palladium rose $8.75 to
$750.65 an ounce.

Benchmark crude for August delivery climbed 65 cents to settle at 95.42 per
barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange as lawmakers in Greece approved
final details of a plan that will bring sweeping financial reform to its
beleaguered economy.

In other Nymex contracts, heating oil rose 1.16 cents to settle at $2.9463 per
gallon, gasoline rose 3.43 cents to $2.9692 per gallon and natural gas fell 5.9
cents to $4.393 per 1,000 cubic feet.

[Smart]

I mix corn, protein and peas, sometimes milo.
Top it off with an additive.
I'm pretty sure they like it more......
That's the way I feed protein in the offseason, too....

That's a lot of extra work......how do you know they like it more?

[fritztown]

Bags are pre-mixed: called "Mr. Buck".
I know I'd like it more....

[Mike Murphey]

If you put lb of protein next to a lb of corn, the corn will be gone sooner than the protein...

[gig one]

Got corn an portein in 650 lb protein feeder my deer are cleaning it out in 2 weeks had to choke it down all the way to make it last now about 2oo lbs a week