I cannot find baled alfalfa anywhere around where I live. I found a couple guys about an hour away that have a good clover/timothy grass mix. Does anyone feed this type of hay or have any input for me on the issue? I feed 20% record rack mixed 50/50 with 12% sweet feed. During the summer I have clover, chicory and **** growing in their pens.
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upstate ny
coylerd said:
Get your trailer hooked up buddy. They will waste more than they eat unless its 3rd cutting. I would look into getting a few round bales of alfalfa. With just a few animals a bale would last you a long time! I bet 3 would last you all winter. Just roll some off the bale as they need it and put in feeder or let them free choice it!
we have been using bag alfalfa we get at our local farm store it cost about 14$ per bag but they eat it all
They don't call alfalfa the Queen of all forages for nothing ..lol There's nothing better than a good milti leaf second or third cutting of alfalfa . Clovers can be fairly high in protein but the stem to leaf ratio is no where's near that of a good alfalfa. Lots of winter kill on the alfalfa feilds put that crop not only at a premium but hard to come by as well . Good luck in your search.
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Deer Park, Alabama
I have bought Alfalfa bales at Tractor Supply and they don't touch it. I mix a little Alfalfa pellets in with their feed every so often and put a fresh as possible round bale out. They will eat on it a little and find the best grass in it.
dixie20 if u check with the university of auburn they have information on peanut grass guy in east texas told me about this he said best he has seen he got some body out of flordia to come to his place an plant 23 acres of it. high protein deer eat the hay like candy this is not peanut hay . he hhad 3 yr. old hay tested and it tested at 14% protein has to be planted by sprigs.
Do any of you guys in SE OK or E TX know where to get some fresh cut peanut hay to disk in? Shame it doesn't seed out...
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Columbia City, IN
I use alfalfa hay that I bale myself. They do waste quite a bit, but I'll feed the left overs every couple of days to either my neighbors horses, or I'll raise a couple steers through the winter and keep them fed on what the deer waste. Chaffhaye is great, but my deer were about 50/50 on eating it.
By spring time, I'll still have a ,manure spreader full of left over waste.
By spring time, I'll still have a ,manure spreader full of left over waste.
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Deer Park, Alabama
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dixie20 if u check with the university of auburn they have information on peanut grass guy in east texas told me about this he said best he has seen he got some body out of flordia to come to his place an plant 23 acres of it. high protein deer eat the hay like candy this is not peanut hay . he hhad 3 yr. old hay tested and it tested at 14% protein has to be planted by sprigs.
That is called perennial peanuts. You do plant it from sprigs called rhizomes. I cut mine for hay also. The deer love it. It does not produce a nut just forage. You can find all the information you want about this on the internet under Florigraze which is the variety of perennial peanuts. It comes back every year. Good stuff! It will not grow up north. Horse racers in the south prefer it over alfalfa. There is a stand in Tifton Ga at the ag expo that is almost 50 years old.
dixie20 if u check with the university of auburn they have information on peanut grass guy in east texas told me about this he said best he has seen he got some body out of flordia to come to his place an plant 23 acres of it. high protein deer eat the hay like candy this is not peanut hay . he hhad 3 yr. old hay tested and it tested at 14% protein has to be planted by sprigs.
That is called perennial peanuts. You do plant it from sprigs called rhizomes. I cut mine for hay also. The deer love it. It does not produce a nut just forage. You can find all the information you want about this on the internet under Florigraze which is the variety of perennial peanuts. It comes back every year. Good stuff! It will not grow up north. Horse racers in the south prefer it over alfalfa. There is a stand in Tifton Ga at the ag expo that is almost 50 years old.