I picked up a Perennial peanut hay round roll that was very reasonably priced. The guy lost the roof to his barn in the hurricane and wants to get rid of his fresh cut hay before it gets rained on.
It is pretty mature, but I am used to comparing to Tifton. Some of the stems are about 2 ft long. The horses seem to love it. Just wondering if it’s worth buying another round or 2.
They aren’t used to eating peanut hay so I’m slowly introducing it.
That is NOT what our perennial peanut hay has ever looked like from several different farmers over the years. I’d suspect your supplier has another type of hay and/or weeds growing like that in his fields. PP is very digestible and is considered comparable to alfalfa in nutrition and digestibility, but I don’t think those long stems are normal. PP is not a tall growing plant. It looks to me to appear to be low quality. Our perennial peanut hay has minimal stems at all and flakes fall apart easily.
It’s also not all that common to be sold in rounds because of how it falls apart. Some farmers are starting to do it, but its few and far between.
It’s definitely perennial peanut. I’ve seen it where it’s all leaves and I’ve also seen it be all stems at the feed store. When my old horse was still alive I would have to make sure it was all leaves because she couldn’t eat stems at all with her teeth. The stuff at the feed store I refused to buy. It was worse than this. It looked like straw.
Wow. The perennial leaves are attached to those long stems? He must’ve cut way late. I’m not sure about colic risk. The only time I’ve seen perennial advertised that it looked similar to this (not as bad though) was one where they said it was 50% coastal mix.
You could do a core sample and take it to your ag extension office for testing.
Well I think the cows will get this one. It’s not worth the hassle. If I shake the leaves out they will fall off but that’s too time consuming.
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