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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 794732" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Jeez, I've not seen sericea hay in decades, but remember when my dad & granddad used to put some up from one of the farms they had; you had to cut/condition and bale all in the same day or ALL of the leaves fell off, and you were left with bundles of woody sticks. And even put up in the best of conditions, they were still mostly bundles of woody sticks! I remember feeding them in hay racks over feed troughs in the barn - and the cows just sort of picked through to get the leaves and whatever other plants may have been incorporated into the bales. Glad I wasn't old/big enough to be having to handle those things out of the field - those squares would undoubtedly have eaten the skin off your arms in short order, lifting & stacking 'em. </p><p>I know they've selected better varieties in the past 50 years, but I'm with dun on this one - if it's all woody stems, you may not be able to MAKE them eat it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 794732, member: 12607"] Jeez, I've not seen sericea hay in decades, but remember when my dad & granddad used to put some up from one of the farms they had; you had to cut/condition and bale all in the same day or ALL of the leaves fell off, and you were left with bundles of woody sticks. And even put up in the best of conditions, they were still mostly bundles of woody sticks! I remember feeding them in hay racks over feed troughs in the barn - and the cows just sort of picked through to get the leaves and whatever other plants may have been incorporated into the bales. Glad I wasn't old/big enough to be having to handle those things out of the field - those squares would undoubtedly have eaten the skin off your arms in short order, lifting & stacking 'em. I know they've selected better varieties in the past 50 years, but I'm with dun on this one - if it's all woody stems, you may not be able to MAKE them eat it. [/QUOTE]
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