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<blockquote data-quote="agmantoo" data-source="post: 765736" data-attributes="member: 8973"><p>cowboy43</p><p></p><p>I know how you feel when drought hits and hits hard! I went through what I thought was a drought in 2003 nearly unscathed. Then the sever drought of 2007 hit. That drought outlasted me and my supplies. I lasted at least 6 months longer than my neighbors but as that drought endured I did not. I was forced to bring in feed from out of state at a premium cost. Though the area I live in has lots of cattle we just are not positioned with suppliers for such things as simple range cubes. I had to resort to feeding cotton gin waste supplemented with limited peanut hay. My cattle had a filled gut but the feed was marginal at best. Doing what I was forced to do stressed my cattle. Anything that I am growing, be in plant or animal, I never want to stress. I learned from that experience to never waste surplus forage and that is when I switched to daily movement of the herd and I have ceased to give standing hay away. I either feed the forage efficiently or return it to the soil when it is unsuitable or unneeded for feed. Good luck on your returning to rotational feeding. If I can assist, just ask.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agmantoo, post: 765736, member: 8973"] cowboy43 I know how you feel when drought hits and hits hard! I went through what I thought was a drought in 2003 nearly unscathed. Then the sever drought of 2007 hit. That drought outlasted me and my supplies. I lasted at least 6 months longer than my neighbors but as that drought endured I did not. I was forced to bring in feed from out of state at a premium cost. Though the area I live in has lots of cattle we just are not positioned with suppliers for such things as simple range cubes. I had to resort to feeding cotton gin waste supplemented with limited peanut hay. My cattle had a filled gut but the feed was marginal at best. Doing what I was forced to do stressed my cattle. Anything that I am growing, be in plant or animal, I never want to stress. I learned from that experience to never waste surplus forage and that is when I switched to daily movement of the herd and I have ceased to give standing hay away. I either feed the forage efficiently or return it to the soil when it is unsuitable or unneeded for feed. Good luck on your returning to rotational feeding. If I can assist, just ask. [/QUOTE]
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