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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1095555" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Cool wet spring/summer in this neck of the woods last year(2013) translated into a lot of hay being made - but I'm beginning to have some real concerns that nutritive content may not be all that good. </p><p>Have not had ours tested this year; the hay producer we've been buying from for the past 6 years or so usually does a very good job, and produces some good quality hay. Just doesn't look as good this year, and my fall-calving cows really have dropped body condition much worse than in recent memory. Have had to really bump it up on them in the past month; had a few that never would cycle back in, and were looking pretty danged rough. </p><p></p><p>But, I'm also seeing, coming through the diagnostic lab - and reports of similar problems from our sister lab over in central KY - unusual numbers (and earlier than usual) of 'starve-outs' - cows with 8+-month calves in 'em or new calves on the ground, being fed only hay - with total depletion of all body fat stores. They've just 'run out of gas'...</p><p>Usually see them just before green-up, but they're coming a month or more earlier than usual; certainly possible that this unusual cold weather is just pushing 'em over the edge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1095555, member: 12607"] Cool wet spring/summer in this neck of the woods last year(2013) translated into a lot of hay being made - but I'm beginning to have some real concerns that nutritive content may not be all that good. Have not had ours tested this year; the hay producer we've been buying from for the past 6 years or so usually does a very good job, and produces some good quality hay. Just doesn't look as good this year, and my fall-calving cows really have dropped body condition much worse than in recent memory. Have had to really bump it up on them in the past month; had a few that never would cycle back in, and were looking pretty danged rough. But, I'm also seeing, coming through the diagnostic lab - and reports of similar problems from our sister lab over in central KY - unusual numbers (and earlier than usual) of 'starve-outs' - cows with 8+-month calves in 'em or new calves on the ground, being fed only hay - with total depletion of all body fat stores. They've just 'run out of gas'... Usually see them just before green-up, but they're coming a month or more earlier than usual; certainly possible that this unusual cold weather is just pushing 'em over the edge. [/QUOTE]
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