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<blockquote data-quote="M-J-G" data-source="post: 7849919" data-attributes="member: 1819"><p>I'm no expert, I simply observe and attempt to recall what I've seen.</p><p>It will vary but most grass we've sampled in the past has had an ME of 11+</p><p></p><p>So many of today's cattle are whippet like and lack capacity in the name of carcass grades they need a handy as they need to spend so much time eating little and often.</p><p>Cattle with more capacity will resemble that of a sheep that can consume more in one go and then go off and relax.</p><p></p><p>I doubt it will be a preference for DM specifically that cows go for silage over winter grass, it will be more likely the handy option and if it's reasonable silage it should be more palatable than end of season grass that been dunged on for a season.</p><p></p><p>If it was about DM, they prefer straw over winter grass, and I'm guessing if you replaced your silage bale with straw, they'd start to do a lot more grazing (assuming they have reasonable grass)</p><p></p><p>We've regularly built up grass on dry land in the autumn and grazed some of cows until January on 2-3 day changes along with straw and 30 cows will maybe eat 2 bales a week, the cows wintered on silage don't tend to do any better than the ones on grass.[ATTACH=full]998888[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I recall a study at SAC, where they kept 3 types of cows on deferred grazing</p><p>Lim×AA</p><p>Pure Luing</p><p>Pure Char</p><p>They luings did best, the pure Char cows were next and the Lim×AA did worst, the came to the conclusion that it was down to capacity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M-J-G, post: 7849919, member: 1819"] I'm no expert, I simply observe and attempt to recall what I've seen. It will vary but most grass we've sampled in the past has had an ME of 11+ So many of today's cattle are whippet like and lack capacity in the name of carcass grades they need a handy as they need to spend so much time eating little and often. Cattle with more capacity will resemble that of a sheep that can consume more in one go and then go off and relax. I doubt it will be a preference for DM specifically that cows go for silage over winter grass, it will be more likely the handy option and if it's reasonable silage it should be more palatable than end of season grass that been dunged on for a season. If it was about DM, they prefer straw over winter grass, and I'm guessing if you replaced your silage bale with straw, they'd start to do a lot more grazing (assuming they have reasonable grass) We've regularly built up grass on dry land in the autumn and grazed some of cows until January on 2-3 day changes along with straw and 30 cows will maybe eat 2 bales a week, the cows wintered on silage don't tend to do any better than the ones on grass.[ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_20151111_084819754.jpg"]998888[/ATTACH] I recall a study at SAC, where they kept 3 types of cows on deferred grazing Lim×AA Pure Luing Pure Char They luings did best, the pure Char cows were next and the Lim×AA did worst, the came to the conclusion that it was down to capacity. [/QUOTE]
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