LazyGLowlines
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I was wondering if feeding a pregnant cow free choice nice alfalfa would affect the size of the calf?
LazyGLowlines said:I was wondering if feeding a pregnant cow free choice nice alfalfa would affect the size of the calf?
We feed only grass hay and hayledge, sometimes when we can get a truckload of old alfalfa or Timothy we will add as a supplement. As you probably know we raise Lowlines, we have never had to pull a calf except when it presented wrong. We have a customer who feeds prime alfalfa and had a calf that had to be pulled from a first time heifer. He said she wasn't overly fat. I just wonder if feed was a factor.simtal said:as opposed to what?
LazyGLowlines said:We feed only grass hay and hayledge, sometimes when we can get a truckload of old alfalfa or Timothy we will add as a supplement. As you probably know we raise Lowlines, we have never had to pull a calf except when it presented wrong. We have a customer who feeds prime alfalfa and had a calf that had to be pulled from a first time heifer. He said she wasn't overly fat. I just wonder if feed was a factor.simtal said:as opposed to what?