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<blockquote data-quote="skcatlman" data-source="post: 334189" data-attributes="member: 5562"><p>A friend of mine up here develops and markets dairy heifers and had an idea that seems to make alot of sense to me for beef heifers. He makes his living selling replacement dairy heifers and we were talking about feeding one day. What he does is feed alot of hay and straw and minimal amounts of grain. The reasoning is that the rumen is forced to grow as large as the heifer's body will allow and the heifers milk better in their life because they have a bigger rumen when mature because of more capacity to use the feed and thus produce more milk. I have been doing it with my beef heifers but it is hard to see the results of increased milk flow. But since cutting back drastically on the grain my hfrs aren't as fleshy but it got rid of other problems associated with high grain diets. What do other dairy producers have to say about this theroy?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skcatlman, post: 334189, member: 5562"] A friend of mine up here develops and markets dairy heifers and had an idea that seems to make alot of sense to me for beef heifers. He makes his living selling replacement dairy heifers and we were talking about feeding one day. What he does is feed alot of hay and straw and minimal amounts of grain. The reasoning is that the rumen is forced to grow as large as the heifer's body will allow and the heifers milk better in their life because they have a bigger rumen when mature because of more capacity to use the feed and thus produce more milk. I have been doing it with my beef heifers but it is hard to see the results of increased milk flow. But since cutting back drastically on the grain my hfrs aren't as fleshy but it got rid of other problems associated with high grain diets. What do other dairy producers have to say about this theroy? [/QUOTE]
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