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<blockquote data-quote="dcara" data-source="post: 829627" data-attributes="member: 473"><p>"90%" sounds like a wild A$$ guess, and an uninformed guess at that. The water content is higher in "lush" grass but the reason they get the squirts is because their plane of nutrition is much higher. You can actually give them the squirts in the winter with hay if you also feed them enough protein. If there was "almost no dry matter" they would not be able to eat enough to get the nutrition they need to survive since water does not contain the needed nutrients. I can't believe you ever actually measured anything that high. If you did can you tell me what measurement method you used and specifically what forage you measured, the stage of growth, time of day and year when you measured it so I can try to repeat your measurement? The highest spring time, boot stage rye grass moisture content I ever measured was less than 60%. The only thing in any of the feed tables I looked at that was higher was silage, but then its not forage. </p><p></p><p>I tried to find the previous article I referenced that had the pictures but A&M has moved it. I'll post it again if/when they get back to me. In the mean time here's a link to an article that discusses the same thing which you might consider reading. The paragraph "Fecal consistancy" at the bottom of the 3rd page explains what I said.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1194&context=rangebeefcowsymp&sei-redir=1#search=%22Determining+cattle+nutrition+byh+fecal+analysis+of%22" target="_blank">http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewc ... ysis+of%22</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dcara, post: 829627, member: 473"] "90%" sounds like a wild A$$ guess, and an uninformed guess at that. The water content is higher in "lush" grass but the reason they get the squirts is because their plane of nutrition is much higher. You can actually give them the squirts in the winter with hay if you also feed them enough protein. If there was "almost no dry matter" they would not be able to eat enough to get the nutrition they need to survive since water does not contain the needed nutrients. I can't believe you ever actually measured anything that high. If you did can you tell me what measurement method you used and specifically what forage you measured, the stage of growth, time of day and year when you measured it so I can try to repeat your measurement? The highest spring time, boot stage rye grass moisture content I ever measured was less than 60%. The only thing in any of the feed tables I looked at that was higher was silage, but then its not forage. I tried to find the previous article I referenced that had the pictures but A&M has moved it. I'll post it again if/when they get back to me. In the mean time here's a link to an article that discusses the same thing which you might consider reading. The paragraph "Fecal consistancy" at the bottom of the 3rd page explains what I said. [url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1194&context=rangebeefcowsymp&sei-redir=1#search=%22Determining+cattle+nutrition+byh+fecal+analysis+of%22]http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewc ... ysis+of%22[/url] [/QUOTE]
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