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Clover in the pasture surpised me + scurred bull
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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 564884" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>The red clover may start to peter out if you have a long spell of 90 degree days with no rain. OUrs usually starts to start slowing down in middle to late august. BTW, I'm assuming the clover was inoculated, if not it won;t be fixing much nitorgen.</p><p>Bloat and clover, a really perplexing subject. Clover is credited by the experts with causing bloat in cattle. Our cows are used to clover and when turned into a field with a lot of clover they just graze it like they would grass, they don;t make an issue out of over eating it. Some of our pastures are 75% and maybe more red clover and a little wild white dutch clover. They will sometimes appear full and gassy but not have any problems. We have one field that is almost solid red clover, there is some grass but you would be hard pressed to find it through the clover, some of which was 3 foot tall. For a couple of months each year we board cows for the vet. I was leery of putting my cows in that field so I asked the vet if he minded if we ran his there this summer. Mind, he was tickled to death. I was concerned about bloat but he wasn;t, and his cows haven't seen any clover since last summer when they were here. I've kept a close eye on them and now after a month and a half they;ve made a dent in the clover but it hasn;t affected them other then to put a lot of condition on them.</p><p>If you're really concerned about the possibilities there are blocks you can put out that will prevent bloat, I have a half dozen of them sitting in the feed room that have never been unwrapped and they've been there for close to 10 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 564884, member: 34"] The red clover may start to peter out if you have a long spell of 90 degree days with no rain. OUrs usually starts to start slowing down in middle to late august. BTW, I'm assuming the clover was inoculated, if not it won;t be fixing much nitorgen. Bloat and clover, a really perplexing subject. Clover is credited by the experts with causing bloat in cattle. Our cows are used to clover and when turned into a field with a lot of clover they just graze it like they would grass, they don;t make an issue out of over eating it. Some of our pastures are 75% and maybe more red clover and a little wild white dutch clover. They will sometimes appear full and gassy but not have any problems. We have one field that is almost solid red clover, there is some grass but you would be hard pressed to find it through the clover, some of which was 3 foot tall. For a couple of months each year we board cows for the vet. I was leery of putting my cows in that field so I asked the vet if he minded if we ran his there this summer. Mind, he was tickled to death. I was concerned about bloat but he wasn;t, and his cows haven't seen any clover since last summer when they were here. I've kept a close eye on them and now after a month and a half they;ve made a dent in the clover but it hasn;t affected them other then to put a lot of condition on them. If you're really concerned about the possibilities there are blocks you can put out that will prevent bloat, I have a half dozen of them sitting in the feed room that have never been unwrapped and they've been there for close to 10 years. [/QUOTE]
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