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Alfalfa and Wheat Hays for Fattening Calves

Washington Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

A mixture of equal parts of alfalfa and wheat hay by weight was practically as efficient as alfalfa hay as a roughage for fattening calves at the Washington State College Experiment Station last year. Both these rations proved about one-third more efficient than wheat hay alone, as far as rapidity of gain was concerned. The addition of one-half a pound of meat meal to the wheat hay ration increased the gains 16 per cent. All lots were started on a grain ration of two-thirds oats and one-third barley, which was gradually changed to a mixture of equal parts by weight of dry-rolled barley, oats, and wheat.

Wheat hay fed to two-year-old steers the year previous with a grain mixture consisting of one-half wheat, one-fourth barley, and one-fourth oats produced a daily gain of two pounds. But a similar group of steers fed on alfalfa hay and the same