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<blockquote data-quote="faster horses" data-source="post: 1727388" data-attributes="member: 17524"><p>The old saying is "feed grain (corn) at less than 5# or more than 10 for efficient rumen function. Starch vs fibre.</p><p></p><p>It seems like, and excuse me if I am wrong here, but we were shown years ago, whole corn that had been digested and showed up on the ground. If you look at a kernel, there is a hole in it where the nutrients had been digested but the shell was pretty much intact. We just didn't feed whole corn; when we tried there was not enough of a smell to get them to eat it. Many producers in our area do feed cob corn to cows in winter. It's interesting watching an old cow learn to eat it. Soon she is chewing with her nose in the air so the corn goes down the hatch and not on the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="faster horses, post: 1727388, member: 17524"] The old saying is "feed grain (corn) at less than 5# or more than 10 for efficient rumen function. Starch vs fibre. It seems like, and excuse me if I am wrong here, but we were shown years ago, whole corn that had been digested and showed up on the ground. If you look at a kernel, there is a hole in it where the nutrients had been digested but the shell was pretty much intact. We just didn't feed whole corn; when we tried there was not enough of a smell to get them to eat it. Many producers in our area do feed cob corn to cows in winter. It's interesting watching an old cow learn to eat it. Soon she is chewing with her nose in the air so the corn goes down the hatch and not on the ground. [/QUOTE]
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