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Is this hay combo Ok for Longhorns?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1781766" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Without a nutritional analysis, you can't tell. </p><p>I've bought predominantly warm-season grass hay that had great ADF/NDF numbers - seller thought he had something comparable to alfalfa... except that the crude protein was 4%... below 7%, there's not enough N in hay for the rumen microherd to even be able to break it down. </p><p>If we had fed <strong>only</strong> that hay without supplementing protein in a big way, we'd have had cows starving to death with a belly full of indigestible hay - and all they could eat, still sitting in front of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1781766, member: 12607"] Without a nutritional analysis, you can't tell. I've bought predominantly warm-season grass hay that had great ADF/NDF numbers - seller thought he had something comparable to alfalfa... except that the crude protein was 4%... below 7%, there's not enough N in hay for the rumen microherd to even be able to break it down. If we had fed [B]only[/B] that hay without supplementing protein in a big way, we'd have had cows starving to death with a belly full of indigestible hay - and all they could eat, still sitting in front of them. [/QUOTE]
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