Alfalfa cubes

[Trux]

Like I said regions are different Here I am located within thirty miles of the grower. And all hay is irrigated grown in the desert... the first three cuttings are too rich for horses... Here we get seven to eight cuttings of hay out of the fields... In Michigan I suspect they may get two at the most... because of the rain fall...

Colic and founder are two main issues...

For chickens Its so beyond different... LOL. I used to supplement with catifish pellets for them. I live in predator central so stopped allowing them to free range. Oh they got about two acres to mess around in Fenced around the house. and the Chaparal has lots of chickony titbits... Lizards mousies grass hoppers Seeds.... and lots of Decomposed granite to wash em down with.... But after a month they pretty much have cleaned out the yard. And I have to supplement.

deb

Such is life in the desert with chickens

 

[perchie.girl]

Yeah, here in IL we can usually get 4 nice cuttings, weather permitting. And obviously, if you have Percherons, you're not going to want alfalfa The only time I fed straight alfalfa was when I had a super hard keeping OTTB.

LOL... I had a boarding stable try to charge me double to feed my horse... I moved.... Next place said Shes had percherons before and a Thoroughbred will out eat a percheron any day...

all that quick twitch muscle...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Such is life in the desert with chickens

Yepper... I love my High Desert Heaven.... Right between the Pacific and the sea of Cortez... A little snow in the winter but annual precipitiation is 9 inches give or take including snow.

deb

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Here in Wisconsin horses don't get fed alfalfa, that's reserved for dairy cows. Horses get regular old Timothy or mixed grass hay. We get two cuttings a year, but when we had a dairy farm 4 cuttings was a really good year.

I personally would never buy or feed straight alfalfa to any critter as it's too rich, too expensive, and the bales if you can find them are too heavy. So it does all matter where you live and what's available, and what you can find.

 

[Kayla's Lunch]

Can the alfalfa be fermented? Anyone do that?

 

[perchie.girl]

Can the alfalfa be fermented? Anyone do that?

just about any feed can be fermented...

 

[gocgo]

I do the tsc alfalfa cubes. I put them in some luke warm water for a while to soften. They swell up and and the girls eat them up. I don't give too often though as they tend to get bored with them.

 

[aart]

Can the alfalfa be fermented? Anyone do that?

+1. I add them to my fermented feed in the winter. It's amazing how much that one cube swells up when wet.

 

[kokosmom2]

my alfalfa cubes smell just fine. I will use them again this winter when the chickens have no green stuff outside, just only white snow.

 

[perchie.girl]

yay