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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 246"><p>> Nutrition would have to be</p><p>> analysed. My guess would be</p><p>> similar to grass hay. ***** I understood from my dairy neighbor that silage was higher in nutrition that grass hay.... am not sure what the properties of silage are, but I thought it was always more wet which is why it has that odd odor. As a point of interest, my mother told that her father (back during WWII) used chicken wire frames lined with tar paper to store/make their silage. Silage apparently needs heat and dry to be properly taken care of? The idea of the plastic bags for the yard clippings is a neat small farm idea.... would the black bags be better than the white ones? also... the dairy neighbor only fed the silage to his milking cows... which is why I always thought that it would be more nutrient rich. one last question.... if we feed grass clippings, do we need to be aware of lawn treatments being used... such as Weed N Feed, etc?????</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:Sailor_One@hotmail.com">Sailor_One@hotmail.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 246"] > Nutrition would have to be > analysed. My guess would be > similar to grass hay. ***** I understood from my dairy neighbor that silage was higher in nutrition that grass hay.... am not sure what the properties of silage are, but I thought it was always more wet which is why it has that odd odor. As a point of interest, my mother told that her father (back during WWII) used chicken wire frames lined with tar paper to store/make their silage. Silage apparently needs heat and dry to be properly taken care of? The idea of the plastic bags for the yard clippings is a neat small farm idea.... would the black bags be better than the white ones? also... the dairy neighbor only fed the silage to his milking cows... which is why I always thought that it would be more nutrient rich. one last question.... if we feed grass clippings, do we need to be aware of lawn treatments being used... such as Weed N Feed, etc????? [email=Sailor_One@hotmail.com]Sailor_One@hotmail.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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