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Winter vs. Spring Hay Usage ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rydero" data-source="post: 1569180" data-attributes="member: 38101"><p>It depends what it is. Mine were eating like mad in the cold snap, throttled back a bit when it warmed up now I brought them home to calve and consumption is high again. Saved the best hay for calving. When I put out the stuff they wintered on vs the good stuff the same pen of cows will take twice as long to eat the same amount. I calculated one day last week and it should be just about impossible for them to eat as much as they are when they have the good hay. They were previously getting approx. 37lbs a day/cow including waste, they're up over 42lbs/day/cow on average. On days where they have better hay I calculate that they're consuming 63lbs/day/cow. Lesser hay and they consume 31.5 and there's way more waste.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rydero, post: 1569180, member: 38101"] It depends what it is. Mine were eating like mad in the cold snap, throttled back a bit when it warmed up now I brought them home to calve and consumption is high again. Saved the best hay for calving. When I put out the stuff they wintered on vs the good stuff the same pen of cows will take twice as long to eat the same amount. I calculated one day last week and it should be just about impossible for them to eat as much as they are when they have the good hay. They were previously getting approx. 37lbs a day/cow including waste, they're up over 42lbs/day/cow on average. On days where they have better hay I calculate that they're consuming 63lbs/day/cow. Lesser hay and they consume 31.5 and there's way more waste. [/QUOTE]
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