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When I was at UC Davis I took an Animal Science class called “Ruminant Digestion and Nutrition.” We learned you can feed cows grains, hay, even sawdust. They ca
by whyenot 7y ago
When I was at UC Davis I took an Animal Science class called “Ruminant Digestion and Nutrition.” We learned you can feed cows grains, hay, even sawdust. They can live and thrive on all those things as long as they also get trace minerals. That is the magic of having a rumen.
- Jedd 7y agoAbsolutely -- though it's the benefit of all four stomachs that comes into play there. Anything with some lignen in it, along with a salt block (or urea block) gets them pretty much everything they need, because they can manufacture their own amino acids. This doesn't detract from the fact that feeding them as much grains as they can eat -- not too dissimilar from the pate gooses -- is highly questionable.