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| Does anyone feed Some greenfeed with there Grass hay?!
Is it too hot of a roughage?!
I know grain can cause flareups on horses with ulcers, would greenfeed do the same?!
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| At the risk of sounding dumb, what is green feed? |
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| classicpotatochip - 2015-03-11 9:57 AM
At the risk of sounding dumb, what is green feed?
I tried to google it and I couldn't figure it out!  |
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Location: Kansas | I fed timothy pellets I bought from TSC.
I currently feed each horse a flake of alfalfa morning/evening on top of their round bale of brome. |
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| we feed it to our cows, just never thought about feeding it to our horses. so we don't have to feed grain and helps finish the cows a bit better!
when the oat plants are still green and just setting seed, we cut it and then bale it. to my knowledge it doesn't have the starch as feeding grain would. |
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Location: Florida.. | This is what i found ?Cereal hay made from oats, barley or wheat can also be used for feeding horses. Oat hay or green feed is a common forage for horses in many parts of North America. Often oat hay is available because the oat crop did not mature to be harvested as grain. Drought, or frost conditions are often the reason that the cereal crop was made into hay and drought stressed or frosted cereal crops can have elevated nitrate levels. If this is the case, the forage should be tested for nitrate content. While limited information is available on the toxicity of nitrate in horse diets, it is recommended that the nitrate content of the total diet should not exceed 0.50%. When you are having your forage tested for other nutrients, ask for a nitrate analysis. When barley or wheat is used to make the cereal hay, caution should be exercised as these feeds can have a significant number of awns present on the seed heads. These awns on the seed heads can cause severe ulcers in the horse's mouth. Good quality cereal hay is produced when the crop is harvested at the dough stage and can be a good source of DE. In general cereal hay is best suited in diets for mature horses. Horse owners using cereal hay need to ensure all horses receive an adequate intake of minerals.
Cereal straw while commonly fed to beef cattle is not commonly used in horse diets. Straw is low in protein, low in DE and high in fiber. While it does provide gut fill, the nutritional value is low. As with many high fiber feeds, intake can be difficult to predict and therefore balancing diets of horses where straw is used is challenging. To be effective, horse owners need to closely monitor their horses to ensure that horses are eating the required amount of all feeds provided and are maintaining body condition. If straw is used as the base forage, all horses must have free access to water to prevent impaction plus ensure all horses have access to a good mineral supplement.
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| well that defiantly answered my question!! the cows will keep eating it! and ill keep feeding alfalfa and grass hay |
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| We feed oat barely and wheat grass just as a filler |
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