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<blockquote data-quote="mtchick" data-source="post: 1115166" data-attributes="member: 22091"><p>We put up our own hay and it is mostly alfalfa, sanfoin, native grass mix. Every few years if conditions are just right we will get heavy sweetclover in the fields. This will be the 1st year that is shapeing up to look like a sweetclover year that we will have cattle being fed the hay. I have heard that sweetclover is not good for cows, my BF likes it as it doubles our hay production. What are your thoughts on useing sweetclover as hay over winter for cows that will calve mid to late May. That will give them about a month off of hay and on pasture before they calve. We do have 2 fields of hay that are all brome grass, but they are smaller fields and we wouldn't get enough from them to last the winter. One large round bale lasts about a week, so I thought that it might be OK if we would feed one bale of the sweetclover and then one bale of the brome. Any thoughts on doing that. I would really hate to sell our hay just to have to buy from someone else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mtchick, post: 1115166, member: 22091"] We put up our own hay and it is mostly alfalfa, sanfoin, native grass mix. Every few years if conditions are just right we will get heavy sweetclover in the fields. This will be the 1st year that is shapeing up to look like a sweetclover year that we will have cattle being fed the hay. I have heard that sweetclover is not good for cows, my BF likes it as it doubles our hay production. What are your thoughts on useing sweetclover as hay over winter for cows that will calve mid to late May. That will give them about a month off of hay and on pasture before they calve. We do have 2 fields of hay that are all brome grass, but they are smaller fields and we wouldn't get enough from them to last the winter. One large round bale lasts about a week, so I thought that it might be OK if we would feed one bale of the sweetclover and then one bale of the brome. Any thoughts on doing that. I would really hate to sell our hay just to have to buy from someone else. [/QUOTE]
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