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<blockquote data-quote="gone up the hill" data-source="post: 5468362" data-attributes="member: 1048"><p>Yep but that is mostly wheat straw and whilst its belly fill you will have to top up with either a blend/ cake/ barley grain/ minerals etc to give the animals enough energy to maintain weight and even then straw is only really any good for either dry sucklers and/ or growing/ finishing cattle on an intensive system ( like barley beef for example )</p><p></p><p>Just feeding straw and nothing else will only mean you are going to have serious problems down the road at calving/ no weight gain on growing cattle etc.</p><p></p><p>Most people in the SW were banking on having at least one if not two very decent cuts of grass in Sept/ Oct but with every passing day that is looking less and less likely as we haven't had anywhere near enough rain to keep grass growing like it needs to and in fact the last week grass has been going backwards at a rate of knots..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gone up the hill, post: 5468362, member: 1048"] Yep but that is mostly wheat straw and whilst its belly fill you will have to top up with either a blend/ cake/ barley grain/ minerals etc to give the animals enough energy to maintain weight and even then straw is only really any good for either dry sucklers and/ or growing/ finishing cattle on an intensive system ( like barley beef for example ) Just feeding straw and nothing else will only mean you are going to have serious problems down the road at calving/ no weight gain on growing cattle etc. Most people in the SW were banking on having at least one if not two very decent cuts of grass in Sept/ Oct but with every passing day that is looking less and less likely as we haven't had anywhere near enough rain to keep grass growing like it needs to and in fact the last week grass has been going backwards at a rate of knots.. [/QUOTE]
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