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Little River, TX | From what I have read on these pages bermudagrass hay is superior to timothy hay. I read, 50 or more years ago, in Morrison's Feed & Feeding Text a note from a Mississippi academic saying bermudagrass was just as good as timothy for mules.
Mike the grazing enthousiast in CenTex like Tifton 85. It will cure standing with a frost and still have 10 to 14% CP as late as February. The stems are the key as those thick stems have a lot of good feed inside.
Some TAMU at Commerece grad students, old East Texas State Teachers College, have been doing some work showing bermudagrass cut close to 4 PM CDT has a higher sugar content. Animals like this hay better, have better gains and a whole world of good things. Not too good for a horse with a tendency to founder though.
From my experience, bermudagrass will shatter leaves just as bad or worse than alfalfa.
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