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<blockquote data-quote="Texasmark" data-source="post: 1474906" data-attributes="member: 27848"><p>They will look stemmy because they are but the stems are digestible. You get the whole plant so what nutrients you put into the plant you will/should get most back in the seed heads where lacking in the stems. Besides as I read ruminants need about 40-60% fiber in their diets anyway. When I ran cows I too really liked the tubs. Cows would get their bellies hot licking, some biting off chunks, of that and go to the hay bales, some of lackluster quality, and dig in.</p><p></p><p>On cutting, I found that a tedder is worth the time and trouble to run it, especially on highly irregular fields such as mine. Some of my turns are in excess of 90 degrees which really makes for the "wads" of grass piling up. When I ran a MOCO with a sickle bar, or plain sickle years before that, piling was a real problem. I run a 6' drum now and it does much much better plus the drum doesn't care what kind of moisture is present, nor stem structure, nor density of product.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texasmark, post: 1474906, member: 27848"] They will look stemmy because they are but the stems are digestible. You get the whole plant so what nutrients you put into the plant you will/should get most back in the seed heads where lacking in the stems. Besides as I read ruminants need about 40-60% fiber in their diets anyway. When I ran cows I too really liked the tubs. Cows would get their bellies hot licking, some biting off chunks, of that and go to the hay bales, some of lackluster quality, and dig in. On cutting, I found that a tedder is worth the time and trouble to run it, especially on highly irregular fields such as mine. Some of my turns are in excess of 90 degrees which really makes for the "wads" of grass piling up. When I ran a MOCO with a sickle bar, or plain sickle years before that, piling was a real problem. I run a 6' drum now and it does much much better plus the drum doesn't care what kind of moisture is present, nor stem structure, nor density of product. [/QUOTE]
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