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Red clover silage for cattle
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<blockquote data-quote="Kentishfarmer" data-source="post: 7888946" data-attributes="member: 28556"><p>I dont think our soils would be considered high iron. I know it is more common in Northern Ireland than over here. From what I can tell its mainly to do with what proportion of the diet comes from red clover, we were intially told to make sure a 3rd of their diet is made up of something else. This still resulted in some cases we had to drop the silage from red clover &ryegrass sward to <50% to eliminate cases.</p><p></p><p>Got to remember as its a mineral antagonism/lock up no amount of supplementary mineral Will correct it.</p><p></p><p>Anecdotally older skinnier cows were worse effected than younger fatter ones, I theorise that they were less effective at metabolising the minerals/more susce3ptabel to the iron lock up</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kentishfarmer, post: 7888946, member: 28556"] I dont think our soils would be considered high iron. I know it is more common in Northern Ireland than over here. From what I can tell its mainly to do with what proportion of the diet comes from red clover, we were intially told to make sure a 3rd of their diet is made up of something else. This still resulted in some cases we had to drop the silage from red clover &ryegrass sward to <50% to eliminate cases. Got to remember as its a mineral antagonism/lock up no amount of supplementary mineral Will correct it. Anecdotally older skinnier cows were worse effected than younger fatter ones, I theorise that they were less effective at metabolising the minerals/more susce3ptabel to the iron lock up [/QUOTE]
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