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<blockquote data-quote="KHereford" data-source="post: 930295" data-attributes="member: 18150"><p>Get it tested! Before you make to many claims on how good it is. We learned this the hard way a couple years back. The county was offering free hay sample testing so we took three in "knowing" what was our best hay was. Dead wrong. It went against everything we though we knew, the rained on fescue that had to set out and dry for three days after getting rained on tested 11% protien and the "good" brome that had great color, smell and we thought of as calf hay, put up dry was 7.5%. Both were in the mid 60% for TDN. We have tested every year since and have had they same results. Alot depends on when you put it up. On a good year our grass will stay nice and green and look and smell great in a bale but with some grasses the protien and TDN will drop to wheat straw in no time if not cut and baled in time. I dont kow about coastal so I cant say. Get it tested so we all know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KHereford, post: 930295, member: 18150"] Get it tested! Before you make to many claims on how good it is. We learned this the hard way a couple years back. The county was offering free hay sample testing so we took three in "knowing" what was our best hay was. Dead wrong. It went against everything we though we knew, the rained on fescue that had to set out and dry for three days after getting rained on tested 11% protien and the "good" brome that had great color, smell and we thought of as calf hay, put up dry was 7.5%. Both were in the mid 60% for TDN. We have tested every year since and have had they same results. Alot depends on when you put it up. On a good year our grass will stay nice and green and look and smell great in a bale but with some grasses the protien and TDN will drop to wheat straw in no time if not cut and baled in time. I dont kow about coastal so I cant say. Get it tested so we all know. [/QUOTE]
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