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Grazing Alfalfa and grass

there's a lot of alfalfa brought in to fla for horses. I get a few of them 700 lb bales for mine in the winter. There tighty compressed and we just thow them in the pasture and they naw on them. Rain don't seem to hurt them either. There to expencive to feed cattle. We find lots of small smooth river rocks in them. The closest thing grown in fla to alfalfa is a wild peanut the university of fla developed called floridagraze. It has to be sprigged in ideal weather. There is some clover planted but not much. To hard to dry in this humidity. A company called larsons farms brings in most of the alfalfa. Have any of yall ever heard of them up there?
 
Believe it or not, burnt, he's pretty much a one-man show. He has
one son still at home to help him, but he's still in school. Obviously
there is no concrete way to graze alfalfa without taking a risk. Like
our Vigortone vet said, "When grazing alfalfa, moisture makes fools
of all of us." And he also said, "Grazing alfalfa is great in so many ways,
but you do have risks with it."

He is going to try the soap deal and paroxolene in the mineral, which has
worked very well if he gets it in the cows before he puts them on the alfalfa. And we had encouraged him to put out dry hay and that helped.

Nothing is free darn it.
 
When I grazed straight alfalfa we always had paroxolene in the mineral and we would add a little bit of DDG to it and feed them everyday. Keep a couple of bales out for them and only move to a new paddock in the afternoon after the dew is gone. If you can move them daily that will also help. We never lost one in the paddocks we were gazing but the bloat did cure a fence jumper. And the most important thing is to never let them run out of feed in the paddock.
 

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