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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Randall" data-source="post: 1648687" data-attributes="member: 38590"><p>Ionophores and bicarbonate help with gas bloat that you typically see with grain, but not the frothy bloat caused by legumes like alfalfa.</p><p></p><p>I do think the fear of alfalfa grazing is a little overblown. If you put them on a field when they're hungry and they gorge themselves, you could run into trouble. I grew up on a farm where the cows get put out on the fields every fall, and we never had a problem. We always locked the cows in a yard without feed for a few hours, gave them a bale of stemmy hay that they'd eat because they were hungry, and turn them out on the field immediately after they filled up on hay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Randall, post: 1648687, member: 38590"] Ionophores and bicarbonate help with gas bloat that you typically see with grain, but not the frothy bloat caused by legumes like alfalfa. I do think the fear of alfalfa grazing is a little overblown. If you put them on a field when they're hungry and they gorge themselves, you could run into trouble. I grew up on a farm where the cows get put out on the fields every fall, and we never had a problem. We always locked the cows in a yard without feed for a few hours, gave them a bale of stemmy hay that they'd eat because they were hungry, and turn them out on the field immediately after they filled up on hay. [/QUOTE]
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