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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 787668" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>RBB,</p><p>If someone is feeding fescue hay with the seedheads present - and it may be that growing conditions in a given year are going to result in higher alkaloid levels in seedheads AND leaves - you can get into problems.</p><p>Co-worker here was feeding only fescue hay - no grass left to graze - and was having fescue foot and cows losing tailswitches. Continued feeding without some steps to dilute/counteract the alkaloids in the hay *could* have resulted in cows calving out later with no udder development.</p><p></p><p>Cowboy, I'm not pushing their product, but Alltech markets several YCW products - not sure whether it's Mycosorb or Integral that they used in the endophyte feeding trials.</p><p>Providing a good balanced mineral mix and supplementing with appropriate grain/protein sources may provide a solution</p><p></p><p>People don't want to see or hear it, but lack of adequate, appropriate 'groceries' causes more 'disease' and loss of production in the cow-calf segment than any virus, bacterium, or parasite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 787668, member: 12607"] RBB, If someone is feeding fescue hay with the seedheads present - and it may be that growing conditions in a given year are going to result in higher alkaloid levels in seedheads AND leaves - you can get into problems. Co-worker here was feeding only fescue hay - no grass left to graze - and was having fescue foot and cows losing tailswitches. Continued feeding without some steps to dilute/counteract the alkaloids in the hay *could* have resulted in cows calving out later with no udder development. Cowboy, I'm not pushing their product, but Alltech markets several YCW products - not sure whether it's Mycosorb or Integral that they used in the endophyte feeding trials. Providing a good balanced mineral mix and supplementing with appropriate grain/protein sources may provide a solution People don't want to see or hear it, but lack of adequate, appropriate 'groceries' causes more 'disease' and loss of production in the cow-calf segment than any virus, bacterium, or parasite. [/QUOTE]
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