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<blockquote data-quote="Subsoil" data-source="post: 63523" data-attributes="member: 1099"><p>You're probably correct about the 30 pound per day per head being a good ball park and that covers the title of the post, but in the initial post, it says something about feeding 2 five foot round bales to so many cows. That's what I'm taking issue with. I agree 30 pounds per head is a good serving size of hay for most cows - the question is how many of those 30 pound servings are in your bale of hay. If you haven't weighed it, you don't know.</p><p></p><p>As far as the rest of the snide remarks, I don't know how labor intense it to do the things you and I mention. However, if a person thinks their hay has 10% protein and finds out it's only 5% protein before posting on here something like "my cows are eating 30 pounds of hay per day and still losing weight - what do I do?", I think that labor would save money. Who knows, the hay might be so good it only take 20 pounds per day and that would shave 33% off of the feed bill compared to your recomendation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Subsoil, post: 63523, member: 1099"] You're probably correct about the 30 pound per day per head being a good ball park and that covers the title of the post, but in the initial post, it says something about feeding 2 five foot round bales to so many cows. That's what I'm taking issue with. I agree 30 pounds per head is a good serving size of hay for most cows - the question is how many of those 30 pound servings are in your bale of hay. If you haven't weighed it, you don't know. As far as the rest of the snide remarks, I don't know how labor intense it to do the things you and I mention. However, if a person thinks their hay has 10% protein and finds out it's only 5% protein before posting on here something like "my cows are eating 30 pounds of hay per day and still losing weight - what do I do?", I think that labor would save money. Who knows, the hay might be so good it only take 20 pounds per day and that would shave 33% off of the feed bill compared to your recomendation. [/QUOTE]
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