We’ve sold all but three of our feeders. We’ve been using them less and less; we usually just open a bale and put the hay on the ground. A herd of 15 to 20 cattle will eat an entire 1,000 ...

It’s no secret that cattle require sufficient amounts of minerals as part of their diets to ensure they are productive ...

Cattle eating from a round bale will digest the hay slower and more of that will be absorbed in the digestive tract, he added. “A downside of feeding hay from the round bale is that cattle will ...

"The cows eat the hay, and a few days later, they die from bleeding internally, because their blood doesn't clot," says Walters. The lab the farmer showed up at belonged to a chemist named Karl ...

Target refusals by pen as follows: Fresh cows 3-5%, high pen 1 - 4%, low pen, 0.5 - 3%. Remove refusals at least once a day to minimize heating of the fresh feed.

Cattle don’t distinguish; if it tastes good, they’ll eat it. But cattle can’t be counted on to experiment. Just like humans, they learn their eating behaviors.

The blood thinner warfarin, which prevents blood clots, owes its existence to some cows who got very sick after eating spoiled hay — and to a chemist who spent years trying to figure out why.