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#1 ·
Ran into a Cattle farmer today that feeds his heard a lot of past date bread, sweet cakes, etc. About 30 head right now and feeds them about 200 to 300lbs of this per day as well as pasture and cow feed. They clean this amount of bread up every day, 7 days a week. I did see some of the bread on the top of the containers had some mold on it. Curious about this???? I asked the farmer and he said it works great. I will have to say they were the nicest heard of Cows I have ever seen----maybe to heavy???
 
#7 ·
Diary farmers here buy in truck loads of broken biscuits, biscuit byproducts etc. from commercial biscuit manufacturers and bakeries for their cows. An excellent source of carbs, particularly through the winter.

The calves that live in the paddock around our vegetable garden do well - daily stuff out of the garden including sow thistle which they love, stale biscuits and left over bread out of the kitchen.

Cheers,
Ronnie
 
#8 ·
The bigger dairy operations and some beef herds are fed a variety of feed. But they often have feed specialists that can balance the ration. I have seen semi loads of potatoes used as cattle feed. one farmer gets the corn husks and corn silk from a seed corn processing plant. The managers are on the lookout for odd ball feed that they can supplement into a total ration. Without that balance, hard to tell if you are doing more harm than good. Bread is mostly wheat and often sugar. Would take quite a bit to equal a single bushel of corn.

Years ago Hersey had a rail car full of chocolate candy bars with a bad label or some odd mistake. Michigan hog farmer bought it and had Michigan State University formulate a complete ration that included the candy bars. Fed them wrappers and all.
 
#16 ·
Its the Sunbeam bread company----all the bread, sweet cakes from hundreds of stores that is past date has to be thrown away----so they pile it up and these come by with their trailers and collect on set-days and haul it away for free. They(the one in my area) want let anyone in New because these keep it picked up.
 
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