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Grass Big Bales and Kale outwintering
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7537182" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Pretty similar. They love their 'scratch' on beet, I would prefer their diet was slightly over the 50% supplement, but it depends also on the beet. </p><p></p><p>Various cultivars have higher or lower DM% and some of the soft/ "slurpable" ones you really need about 45% max beet or cows easily lose condition despite being fully fed.</p><p></p><p>I would also recommend you stagger the bales or use more than 1 or 2 rows of bales, because it yields higher than kale (probably double?) then your cows are on half the area or less.... which means the potential for twice the soil damage where they congregate. </p><p>That's why beet for cows is going out of fashion around here again, in a nutshell, it's too successful and basically people aren't prepared to manage the grazing of it properly because the fire's going in the house</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7537182, member: 63856"] Pretty similar. They love their 'scratch' on beet, I would prefer their diet was slightly over the 50% supplement, but it depends also on the beet. Various cultivars have higher or lower DM% and some of the soft/ "slurpable" ones you really need about 45% max beet or cows easily lose condition despite being fully fed. I would also recommend you stagger the bales or use more than 1 or 2 rows of bales, because it yields higher than kale (probably double?) then your cows are on half the area or less.... which means the potential for twice the soil damage where they congregate. That's why beet for cows is going out of fashion around here again, in a nutshell, it's too successful and basically people aren't prepared to manage the grazing of it properly because the fire's going in the house [/QUOTE]
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