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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 412"><p>What blows my mind is that why people go to all the effort to "research" and/or get non-normal feeds for their livestock! Yes, we have grass and hay shortages from time to time. Yes, we have things like beet pulp and cotton burs, and others that "can" be fed to livestock in moderation.</p><p></p><p>Is feeding these alternative "feeds" due to local over-supply of these biproducts, cheap prices, or just naivete? Now, feeding alfalfa cubes to horses traveling the road might be another thing. On the other hand, ruminants and non-ruminants have digestive systems that are fine-tuned from centuries of evolution to eat grass, weeds, hay, small grains, and other items.</p><p></p><p>Finally, I do not see the redeeming value in compromizing their natural grazing behavior or G-I systems by even considering broiler litter (chicken manure +), sawdust, ground-up and processed animal parts, plastic pellets, or any of the other un-natural, exotic or weird things to fill that big open space in the gut. This is akin to feeding humans Tofu, seaweed, tree bark, energy pills, and a myriad of exotic vitamin and other non-food supplements! Hey...what's wrong with REAL food? Food that was inherently normal for a given animal species, two or 4-legged.</p><p></p><p>Off my soapbox...lol</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:info@runningarrowlonghorns.com">info@runningarrowlonghorns.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 412"] What blows my mind is that why people go to all the effort to "research" and/or get non-normal feeds for their livestock! Yes, we have grass and hay shortages from time to time. Yes, we have things like beet pulp and cotton burs, and others that "can" be fed to livestock in moderation. Is feeding these alternative "feeds" due to local over-supply of these biproducts, cheap prices, or just naivete? Now, feeding alfalfa cubes to horses traveling the road might be another thing. On the other hand, ruminants and non-ruminants have digestive systems that are fine-tuned from centuries of evolution to eat grass, weeds, hay, small grains, and other items. Finally, I do not see the redeeming value in compromizing their natural grazing behavior or G-I systems by even considering broiler litter (chicken manure +), sawdust, ground-up and processed animal parts, plastic pellets, or any of the other un-natural, exotic or weird things to fill that big open space in the gut. This is akin to feeding humans Tofu, seaweed, tree bark, energy pills, and a myriad of exotic vitamin and other non-food supplements! Hey...what's wrong with REAL food? Food that was inherently normal for a given animal species, two or 4-legged. Off my soapbox...lol [email=info@runningarrowlonghorns.com]info@runningarrowlonghorns.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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