Nutrition Forage Vs Roughage

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What is a Forage?

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Seed

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What is a roughage?

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Whole plant

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What is Fiber?

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Mainly cellulose and is resistant to digestion by mammalian digestive system enzymes. Measured in Crude Fiber

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Types of Grasses

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6 to 20% crude protein and may or may not be adequate in Ca and P
Bermuda
Ryegrass
Brome
Fescue
Timothy

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Types of Legumes

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Can nitrogen fix
Alfalfa and clover

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Concentrates

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less that 18% crude fiber, high in energy
can be proteinaceous (oil seeds)
or Carbonaceous (grain)

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Proteinaceous concentrates

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Soy beans
Cotton
Canola and Rape

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Carbonaceous concentrates

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Wheat
Barley
Oats
Corn

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Grain by-products

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Bran
Sugar Beet Pulp
Molasses

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Other Protein Sources

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Meat and Bone Meal
Poultry Litter
Blood
Plate Waste

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What Type of Grass is this?

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Bermuda Grass
Causes impaction in horses, very fiberous

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What type of Grass is this?

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Brome Grass, hardy in winter and can be sown in with alfalfa

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What type of grass is this?

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Ryegrass, common pasture grass has annual and perennial varieties

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What type of grass is this?

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Fescue grass, drought resistant can be contaminated with a fungus that causes gangrene

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What type of grass is this?

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Timothy Grass, cool adapted, important hay grass

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What type of Legume is this?

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Alfalfa
roughage legume that is high in DE CP (15-25%) and Ca
Problems with blister beetle in bloom thats causes GI upset

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What type of Legume is this?

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Clover, drought resistant, difficult to make hay problems with mold which is anti vitamin k - causes bleeding problems

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What types of Grain is this?

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Wheat, for human use high in DE, low in fiber and high CP

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What type of grain is this?

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Barley, do not feed green, more drought resistant that wheat

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What type of grain is this?

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Oats, more fiber less DE fed to horses

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What grain it this?

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Corn number one us grain high in DE and low in fiber
Found in Iowa Illinois and Indiana
Sorghm resembles it (f/m Texas)

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What type of grain is that?

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Sorghum can resemble corn, found in Texas

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Components of Grasses

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DE = 1.5 to 3 Mcal/kg (vary)
CP = 6 - 20%
Ca and P may or may not be adequate

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Components of Legumes

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DE = 2.25 to 3 Mcal/kg
CP = 15 - 25%
High in Ca

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Components of Concentrates

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CF < 18%
High in DE
Proteinaceous >10% CP
Carbonaceous < 10% CP

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What seed is this/

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Soybeans
proteinaceous concentrate
>10 CP
<18 CF

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Identify this

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Cotton, grown for lint cotton meal made after the lint has been removed
safe in adult runinants
contains glossypale which is toxic to young and old and causes heart, lung and reproductive problems

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Identify this

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Canola
safe derivative, high in protein

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Identify this

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Bran, the outer covering of grain seed, removed when white flower is made, more fiber and less energy dense

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Identify this

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Sugar Beet Pulp, residue left after sugar is extracted from beets, palatable and highly digestible

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Identify this

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Molasses used to decrease the dust in dry feeds and to mix with NPN sources in ruminants

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Identify this Seed

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Rye

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Identify this

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Milo