Feeding whole mature canola to cattle

No personal experience with it, but I think that 5 percent is right. I think the oil loosens them up too much for the fiber retention. Any chance of making a new silage pit with canola and some green feed? Not a silage guy either. I will ask my neighbor when I get a chance, I know he has messed with what you are looking to do.

Thanks for the input. Just to clarify, this is 2019 crop that was carried over thru this summer and was a partial bin full. Looking like it may have been condensation up till August accumulating along the sides then when the sun started shining, bin right out in the open, as the worst was def on the south half of the bin, that is most likely what set it off. I had similar happen once summer with a partial bin of barley, except it was water getting in between the wall and floor that set that off, and again, was the first bin in a north south row and only the south side that gave trouble. When you think of how hot it must get inside a bin, not hard to see trouble brew up like that.

Not that @300 bu a big deal but when things are tight, anything helps. Think I be lucky if I could scrape up 1200bu of oats and barley of my own right now and most of that is seed stock so not really wanting to feed all of that up. Nothing got seeded, so nothing to combine except about ten acres of swath grazed oats from last fall which seemed to be doing ok at first so I didn't work it up, but now very disappointing but be a few bushels lol, and was no cereals to make into silage, so silage this year is alfalfa grass mix.

Be different feeding canola as grain, I'm kind of wondering how the heck I can process it without completely gumming up the works of everything. Even the roller I think will run into issues, its an old industrial style one with large diameter smooth rolls, won't stick as bad as grooved rolls but there are no scrapers, never needed any before. Not sure the hammermill can handle it without other grain mixed in, screens will plug up instantly I would think. I do have more than one mill, have one of them big Bearcats with that large processor/hammermill on it and the large transfer blower, so was thinking I could pull the pipe between the blower and dust cyclone and turn it out and blow it into a plie or a truck or something, perhaps using a larger screen, run it thru more than once, if one fed it slow enough, thats one humongous mill on that old girl.
So long and short I have options. Anyone ever roll or grind straight canola before? Could mix it say 50/50 with barley then run it thru the hammermill, run about 1/4 screen, again if fed slowly should at least crack most seeds, and as long as a guy kept it out of the tank, that eliminates the issues that could develop there lol.

And I belive it is their bodies reacting to the fat content in the oil that triggers them to stop eating roughage if they get too much. And as for feeding it with the silage, thought that way mix it so its not concentrated as if say fed on the ground or trough by pail or my grain buggy, so no chance of a few pigs scarfing down more than they should while those beside them are just picking at it.
Have to admit be good to have some high protein since I am missing my normal silage this year.

So I think I should ask since meskie indirectly brought it up. I have heard from a few people that it is not necessary to grind or roll feed grains. Apparently with whole seeds, the cow is still able to extract all the nutrients out of it even if it does come out whole in the crap. I am still not sure if I believe it and have not bothered picking enough whole kernels out of crap to get it tested. With that said and if there is any truth to that a small seed like canola may not need processed.

This is coming from a guy with no animal experience or background, so take it for what it's worth. The times we have dried canola, there is always some on the ground, the deer will come in and eat this stuff in droves. They will eat so much of it that their feces no longer resembles anything like deer crap but looks more like huge human turds laying all over the yard, so much nicer to step in than regular deer turds. Now where I'm going with this is deer are very smart animals when it comes to feed, unlike cows who will eat until they bloat and die. So for a deer to eat canola in this amount tells me they are getting nutrients from it without it being processed, as it looks to be whole when it comes out the other end and is being scraped off my boots. I could be entirely wrong and maybe deer are like us and sometimes like a treat and something different from the same old boring food every day. And maybe this is why I don't have cows.