Items Tagged with 'digestibilty'
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Get ready to rumble: The adventures of starting peewee calves
Younger stocker calves require a different nutrition plan than their older counterparts, but knowing the steps to take can maintain these cattle and your operation’s productivity.
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Variability is the only constant when feeding new-crop forages
Three actions to help reduce variability and get the most from your 2023 forages.
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Rethinking ewe nutrition: Addressing concerns about alfalfa pellets
Pelleting may slightly affect rumen retention and fiber digestibility, but the overall nutritional loss is minimal and not biologically significant. Likewise, transitioning from late-gestation forage diets to alfalfa pellets is manageable with comparable fiber content.
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Five ways to optimize a low-forage diet for success
When unforeseen circumstances like drought force the use of low-forage diets, honing the control points is key to optimizing success.
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Feed efficiency for natural cattle
Producers feeding all-natural cattle are generally unable to take advantage of ionophores and other antibiotics. However, there are all-natural, science-based solutions that maintain high feed efficiency in a natural feedlot environment.
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Making silage that suits the rumen
Producing high-quality corn silage requires planting the right varieties, harvesting and storing at full potential, but is the product right for the rumen?
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