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Hi All,

As has been posted, I feed a lot of various feeds.

One of my fav was ground lupin, it could be used to balance starch rich feeds or poor hay/straw.

Anyways, all good things do come to an end.

However I have been offered rice flour (which I think is not as palatable for ruminants), normal flour, wholegrain flour with various amounts of grains.....

I will have to get some and have a look at actual contents and try and nut out the feed value approx, but has anyone tried any of these feeds ?

I am aware of introductions and ramifications of going too extremes, farmers used to buy during drought, I can get it for transport cost.
 
One of my fav was ground lupin
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Your gonna have to educate me on the lupin deal. In many areas of the USA a number of lupin/lupine species are deemed a noxious invasive weed & poisonous to livestock. Ingested in a certain gestational time frame it causes deformities i.e. "crooked calf syndrome".
 
I do not think we have any growing wild, maybe name is similar, but a different plant ? Lupins is what we call them, it is a legume, it is planted like oats etc

It is a very high protein, a lot of horse people will feed some lupins, what I had was human food grade and ground, it is around 30% protein, when ground, you have to watch intake, every animal once the taste is acquired, goes nuts for it, I give about half a pound per sheep in late term, they will lick it off the ground......cattle get a pound or two here and there in between canola based pellets and hi energy feed ad lib, the lupins helps balance the overall protein intake for my growing heifers. Does not hurt the older ones, but they prob do not need it, but I feed them all as one.

https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/lupins/lupin-essentials-%E2%80%93-growing-successful-lupin-crop

I am not sure on growing it and letting cattle graze in the field.
 
Did some sleuthing and was very surprised to discover that there are indeed some Lupin/Lupine varieties developed for both human & animal consumption.
 
No familiar with rice flour at all. We have rice bran which is an excellent ingredient as well as rice mill feed which is a product produced by mixing rice bran and rice hulls. Rice hulls are little more than filler with very little nutritional value.
 

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