Empower Your Hay Management Leverage ICP to Enhance Livestock Health

For optimal production results, match forage quality to animal needs. Feeding animals excessively rich forage wastes nutrients and can result in health problems ... It typically does not need to exceed 20% of the total forage content of the diet. Mad Barn's Feed Bank provides nutritional profiles on 4,370 forages, feeds and ... ... CP, ADIN, HDP and ICP. All of these represent the same thing – the amount of insoluble nitrogen associated with the acid detergent fiber in forage. All forage ... A basic nutrient analysis will measure forage moisture, fibre, energy and protein. These figures contribute in balancing the diet and estimating intake levels ... When you test minerals in forages and provide animal fed, our new report will show mineral concentrations relative to nutrient requirements. These are meant to provide an idea of how well a forage would provide for a ruminant animal if that was all that was being fed. Both may appear ... ... forage test reveals valuable information about hay. To benefit from that information you need to understand the key terms, listed below in ... In addition, the OSU research team has also compiled dry matter, crude protein and acid detergent fiber results from hay surveys of over 400 forage samples to ... Crude protein is generally the most limiting nutrient during winter grazing. The crude protein content of dormant warm-season grasses will be ... If forage is to supply the majority of nutrients the forage (hay) needs to be of the appropriate quality to do so. Page 7. Forage Quality. Page ...