Unleashing the Nutritional Potential of Hay ICP Analysis for Informed Decisions

likely to meet the nutrient requirements of horses in high production situations than mature hays. Page 10. Forages. Grass hay. • Common grass hays. Also look at the Relative Feed Value (RFV) or Relative Forage Quality (RFQ) estimates. These are indexes that estimate the quality of the forage tested. Hay ... NSC in hay is calculated as WSC (water-structural carbohydrates) + starch. WSC comprises sugars and fructans, a major storage carbohydrate of forages. Horses ... This improves their vigor and provides a greater supply of forage for late-summer and fall grazing. Adaptation. Switchgrass, Indiangrass, and big bluestem ... The decision of whether to use conserved forage (hay) or to allow livestock ... forage declines; crude protein (CP) also declines in the forage tissue. ... CP level is not always indicative of highly nutritious forage. ... ICP:CP ratio ... ICP:CP ratios higher than 0.1 can occur when cutting is delayed, hay ... Crude protein (CP) is used less frequently in marketing alfalfa hay. However, in recent years, dairy nutrition- ists are utilizing “summative equations” to. Additionally, this category may overlap with some of the other categories due to the mixture of grasses and other grass/hay combinations. This grouping includes ... checking and knowing the feed analysis. Yet millions of pounds of alfalfa hay are bought and fed each year without an analysis, for the reasons listed above. Many livestock species use forages as their primary source of nutrition. Therefore, it is important to provide animals with the best quality forage ...