Adapting roughages varying in quality and curing processes to the nutrition of beef cattle. Pelleted alfalfa hay and dehydrated pelleted green forage-type sorghum in the winter ration of heifer calves

Abstract

This is the second year of an experiment designed to compare the feeding value of alfalfa fed as long hay or coarsely-ground hay pellets, and forage-type sorghum fed as silage or dehydrated green forage sorghum pellets. Fifty head of choice-quality heifer calves from the Jeff Ranch, Fort Davis, Texas, were used in this experiment. They were allotted, 10 head per lot, on the basis of live weight, and fed a winter ration.