On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Mic Rushen wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:21:01 -0700, you wrote: > >> What we call oat hay has never been threshed -- it has the seed heads >> still attached. > > OK - we would call that long straw. It's not used as a feed stuff over > here - in fact I think it's only used for thatching. I would have > thought it would make a very pretty energy feed, with the grain still > attached.
I like to feed half oat hay (or forage hay -- a hay made from oat, barley and sometimes wheat) and half alfalfa. But the seed heads in an oat hay feeding is much less than the levels of grain many people feed routinely. My horses get more wired and stupid on the alfalfa than they do on the oat hay, for some reason. > Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
