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occasionally feeding sweet feed am I making a mistake?
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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 988870" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>For the rumen to properly digest grasses a specific combination of rumen flora is required. To properly digest grain a different combination is required. That's why animals taken from a high grain diet to mostly forage will lose so much weight. It's claimed that it takes 2 weeks for the rumen flora to adjust to a different diet, i.e high grain/high roughage. A couple of pounds of grain every once in a while isn;t going to make any real difference. During the 45 day weaning process we feed about 1% of body weight in grain, the rest is hay/grass. When we turn them out on nothing but grass/hay after weaning they don;t lose condition and just continue gaining weight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 988870, member: 34"] For the rumen to properly digest grasses a specific combination of rumen flora is required. To properly digest grain a different combination is required. That's why animals taken from a high grain diet to mostly forage will lose so much weight. It's claimed that it takes 2 weeks for the rumen flora to adjust to a different diet, i.e high grain/high roughage. A couple of pounds of grain every once in a while isn;t going to make any real difference. During the 45 day weaning process we feed about 1% of body weight in grain, the rest is hay/grass. When we turn them out on nothing but grass/hay after weaning they don;t lose condition and just continue gaining weight. [/QUOTE]
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