Damaged, rained-on hay. Nearly everyone has to feed it sometime. How should your feeding practices be adjusted, though, to account for any damage caused by the rain? Rain can have numerous effects on ...

As a livestock producer I found myself wondering about how much hay my livestock waste and what the affects are in certain feeding methods on my livestock. I asked myself, are there better methods ...

Hay is expensive and many long hours go into harvesting, storing and feeding it. Don’t waste up to a third of it by using poor feeding practices. Believe it or not, cattle can trample, over consume, ...

Mid-February. The “interface” of feeding hay from last season while in various stages of fertilizer applications for this season. Completely unrelated? Not as much as you might think. If you’ve ever ...

Utilize a hanging goat hay feeder; no-waste feeding is the ideal solution for goats that prefer to play with their food instead of eating it. A hanging hay feeder for goats can be adjusted for any ...

Feeding your horse during the winter can be a challenge and many horse owners will be looking at how to save money on hay and reduce bills this year. No-one wants to over pay for their horse’s hay or ...

Storing big round hay bales by lining them up along the fence row may be easy, but it is not economical. Baled forage probably constitutes the highest percentage of winter feed cost we have wrapped up ...

Which comes first, the grain or the hay? You might love rewarding that excited nickering with a bucket full of sweet feed, followed by hay for hours of chewing pleasure. But according to recent ...

Bale grazing allows livestock to return excess nutrients to the soil. Reduce your feed bill and maximize grazing days by incorporating bale grazing, interseeding, and other fall pasture management ...

Using hay as one form of fodder for cattle, saves the farmer the hustle of walking long distances in search of pastures during the dry season. Unlike their counterparts in Kenya, very few farmers in ...

A Devon dairy farm that feeds hay as a standing crop to autumn-calving cows during the dry period has a milk fever incidence of just 1%. The Cheriton family introduced this high-fibre diet after ...