Soybeans for feed?

[rrman61]

Asking because I don’t know.can and to what extent can soybeans be used to feed animals(cows and pigs mostly)? The old elevator post down below has me wondering about other use’s for soybeans

 

[johnnmr]

They need to be processed, made into meal etc. The little bit of whole beans I've fed to livestock have passed right on thru.


Most soy beans are processed into pig feed in the US.

 

[john in la]

Raw uncooked soybeans has toxins in them that prevent digestion. You might get away with feeding mature cows some raw soybeans but they will kill a pig.

 

[38 Sears Roebuck]

They are roasted before using as a feed supplement.

 

[johnnmr]

Raw uncooked soybeans has toxins in them that prevent digestion. You might get away with feeding mature cows some raw soybeans but they will kill a pig.

Not true. Used to feed the hogs the clean up from filling the bean bins. Never had an issue.

Undigested, yes. Deadly, no.

 

[flying belgian]

Raw uncooked soybeans has toxins in them that prevent digestion. You might get away with feeding mature cows some raw soybeans but they will kill a pig.

Yep, my Grandma fed raw soybeans to a pig and it died. About 100# pig.

 

[glennster]

so would the raw soybeans work to eliminate the wild hogs?

 

[joeysmith]

How far along are they
Makes good hay before they ripen

 

[Fixingfarmer]

There was a time soybeans were used as forage believe it or not I think I saw an old video from the 50s of an AC hooked to a sickle mower mowing off the beans.

The 90 year old I used to work with also talks about winter seeding beans I can’t imagine that worked well.

Nowadays cooked then ground up and at the end user level if you aren’t buying truckloads it comes in a 50 lbs bag of soybean meal you add to the grinder mixer in the back to get your hog ration I think you could probably make it yourself add the beans in the front if they were super dry

 

[moresmoke]

Raw soybeans can be fed to older cattle up to about 5 lbs a day. Young stock that is not ruminating yet should be kept away from raw soy. Other animals need the soy to be roasted or processed into meal to be of any use to them.

Cattle can eat the beans whole, but like any whole grain, your results may vary. Raw ground soy will go rancid fairly quick in warm weather, not so much an issue in the winter. Lastly running raw soy through a grinder amounts to trying to grind rubber balls, slow and power consuming.

 

[caterpillar guy]

I don't believe the rubber balls thing.I've put just about anything you would feed cattle through a feed grinder from Oats,Wheat ,Corn ,Hay and even fresh soybeans and they went through just fine like corn or anyother grain we had. We also would put slabs of idiot cubes through by hand in the throat a slice at a time used it for filler on short corn years more so. Would put about 4 bales in per batch of 2 ton of feed. Used to clean up around the dryer when we dried some soybeans and corn all fall put the fines from corn right on in.Dry or not. With 4 tone of feed only lasting about a week it didn't have time to spoil.

 

[Tony in SD]

Dont feed soybeans to fat cattle you intend to eat. The taste of soy feed beef, if it has a taste at all, is the worst Ive ever had the displeasure of eating.

 

[Russ from MN]

Dont feed soybeans to fat cattle you intend to eat. The taste of soy feed beef, if it has a taste at all, is the worst Ive ever had the displeasure of eating.

It doesn't seem to affect the taste of venison, there are fields of soybeans around our land where we hunt, and the venison tasted great, and there is over an inch of fat under the hide.

 

[Alvin 41]

Asking because I don’t know.can and to what extent can soybeans be used to feed animals(cows and pigs mostly)? The old elevator post down below has me wondering about other use’s for soybeans

My Dairy nutritionist ,15 years ago recommended 1-2 # of raw groung soybeans in the milking cow ratyion.

 

[craigco]

I mix dry soybean meal or extruded soybean meal in the feed for my few cows. Raises the protein level in the mix. Seems like they are at 40 to 48 percent protein.

 

[bmaverick]

Feeding soy to laying hens will yield higher omega-6 in the eggs.
Omega-6 causes high inflammation in the body and rashes peoples stress levels.

We do the non-soy layer feed to maximize the good Omega-3 found in eggs.

Soy oil is good to make into biodiesel fuel.

 

[cjunrau]

Not true. Used to feed the hogs the clean up from filling the bean bins. Never had an issue.

Undigested, yes. Deadly, no.

I do the same except I send them through the mix mill and they don't go through whole. There have been enough studies done and raw still gives them a good percent of the feed value if chopped.

 

[cjunrau]

Yep, my Grandma fed raw soybeans to a pig and it died. About 100# pig.

I wonder why the wild pigs don't die. Might have been something else that killed her pig. My uncle drank water and died but I doubt the water killed him.

 

[cjunrau]

Raw soybeans can be fed to older cattle up to about 5 lbs a day. Young stock that is not ruminating yet should be kept away from raw soy. Other animals need the soy to be roasted or processed into meal to be of any use to them.

Cattle can eat the beans whole, but like any whole grain, your results may vary. Raw ground soy will go rancid fairly quick in warm weather, not so much an issue in the winter. Lastly running raw soy through a grinder amounts to trying to grind rubber balls, slow and power consuming.

when you pail in the soy while the barley and oats is augered in never has a problem.

 

[flying belgian]

I wonder why the wild pigs don't die. Might have been something else that killed her pig. My uncle drank water and died but I doubt the water killed him.

Perhaps. This was 60 years ago and all I remember is Pa told her... you fed it to many soybeans.