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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 764324" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>like Texas bred said there is no such thing as empty calories.</p><p>calories is a measure of energy in a feed stuff.</p><p>While I have not reviewed an analysis, I think Bread to be primarily a starchy carbohydrate relatively high in energy and relatively low in protein and fat.</p><p></p><p>the anecdote of foundering a horse with bags of bread is meaningless. All it says is that the horse foundered on bags of energy. It would similarly have foundered on equivalent consumed energy amounts of corn or oats or grass etc.</p><p></p><p>I used to be able to get throw away bread from a bakery outlet and fed it to cattle. It is an energy source. they love it. Excellent way to calm cows is to hand feed them slices of bread. If you have many cows you will soon be beseiged. I have a cow now named Merrita because when she was a hiefer she loved bread and would follow me around looking for bread handouts. that was an M year and all the calves that were registered had an M name. Merrita is a brand of bread available around here. Merrita raised a bull once who gained 5.91 lbs per day on official test. she weaned a 795 lb bull calf this spring. this was a U year and her bull calf is PDF Ulysses 9626. will find a photo of him and add to this post later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 764324, member: 6543"] like Texas bred said there is no such thing as empty calories. calories is a measure of energy in a feed stuff. While I have not reviewed an analysis, I think Bread to be primarily a starchy carbohydrate relatively high in energy and relatively low in protein and fat. the anecdote of foundering a horse with bags of bread is meaningless. All it says is that the horse foundered on bags of energy. It would similarly have foundered on equivalent consumed energy amounts of corn or oats or grass etc. I used to be able to get throw away bread from a bakery outlet and fed it to cattle. It is an energy source. they love it. Excellent way to calm cows is to hand feed them slices of bread. If you have many cows you will soon be beseiged. I have a cow now named Merrita because when she was a hiefer she loved bread and would follow me around looking for bread handouts. that was an M year and all the calves that were registered had an M name. Merrita is a brand of bread available around here. Merrita raised a bull once who gained 5.91 lbs per day on official test. she weaned a 795 lb bull calf this spring. this was a U year and her bull calf is PDF Ulysses 9626. will find a photo of him and add to this post later. [/QUOTE]
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