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>> We have alfalfa here, we have some trudan [phonetic],
and we have corn and citrus pulp and in a mineral pack
but this is basically alfalfa and some crab grass and Sudan.
This is all my hays, cut below the waist
and those big white bales up there are the bales
that what was harvested here on this farm just a few months ago.
That's these fields harvested and the adjoining fields I have
about 70 acres all farm fields.
And I do feed a TMR every day.
What we'll do in an evening we will take one bale or whatever
and mix it up with our if we have any minerals or things
to feed them like if we need to feed some soda
or whatever we need to feed, we will put that in a TMR,
total mixed ration and every cow, we want every cow to have
at least 15 pounds before they go into the grazing
and that 15 pounds it'll have that in it all the time
because we feed it at night too
and then it'll have the grazing all the time
so the good lord helped me find out that if they had
that in there, if the rumen never stopped or was never
out then they wouldn't bloat on alfalfa and I haven't had a cow
to bloat since we've been grazing.
And that smells really good.
I could eat that if I had it cooked I could eat it myself.
Maybe I'd eat it raw.
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