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peanut hay
How do goats do on peanut hay? I normally feed weedy grass hay, but have been offered a deal on peanut hay...
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02/06/11, 07:59 PM
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Peanut hay and Soybean hay are so much alike it's scary. Peanut hay is just generally dirtier and can be harder on an animal's teeth because of the grittiness.
That being said, I would go cautiously about feeding anything of that high protein and TDN to my critters at a very high volume. Watch their poop and make sure it stays firm and it ought to be fine.
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02/07/11, 10:34 AM
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Peanut hay is all my picky Nubians will eat - its like candy to them. I've never seen it be sandy and their teeth are just fine. My only problem with it is the leaves shatter off of it so easily so there is alot of waste. I feed it to them now in a tub and that seems to help, although there is still some waste while the piggier goats turn to shove the others away while still chewing... 
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02/07/11, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by AuntKitty
Peanut hay is all my picky Nubians will eat - its like candy to them. I've never seen it be sandy and their teeth are just fine. My only problem with it is the leaves shatter off of it so easily so there is alot of waste. I feed it to them now in a tub and that seems to help, although there is still some waste while the piggier goats turn to shove the others away while still chewing...
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Glad to hear that. Around here, with the sandy soils that peanuts are grown in and the way the hay is put up after the harvest, it's like feeding sand paper to them at times. When I used to haul the square bales as a kid it would wear a hole through your chaps in a day's time.
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02/07/11, 10:57 AM
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There are two kinds of peanuts that hay can be made from.
One is the ordinary peanuts that are grown for the nuts and hay made from the rest of the plant. Or the whole thing once in a while. It can be pretty dirty sometimes.
The other is the perennial peanut that doesn't actually produce nuts but is grown as a forage and hay crop. It can be pretty clean since it's not plowed up like regular peanuts. Only problem is that it's not usually found north of a line through central Georgia and Alabama because it can't take the colder winters found further north.
I don't know for a fact, but I suspect that the peanut hay that Aunt Kitty is talking about is from perennial and not regular peanuts. It's good stuff. Comparable to alfalfa.
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02/07/11, 12:11 PM
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Most of the "peanut hay" in this area is left over peanut vines, and NOT the forage type
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02/07/11, 12:14 PM
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if i got a deal on it id buy all i could, the hay not the vines
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02/07/11, 12:15 PM
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peanut hay was the dairy stand by in GA and FL where I have lived. I seeded it out in my field too. It's actually quite pretty with little yellow flowers. Apparently the south is too humid to grow Alfalfa so peanut it is! I haven't noticed that any I have gotten being sandy or gritty. Maybe that's just dependent on where it's grown?
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02/07/11, 02:47 PM
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Maybe that's just dependent on where it's grown?
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What you're talking about is "perennial peanuts" that are grown ONLY for the hay.
Anything grown farther North is the common peanut, and the "hay " is the vines left after the nuts are harvested.
There is a WORLD of difference in the two
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What you're talking about is "perennial peanuts" that are grown ONLY for the hay.
Anything grown farther North is the common peanut, and the "hay " is the vines left after the nuts are harvested.
There is a WORLD of difference in the two
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I was referring to the grit and sandiness someone mentioned. Though realizing that buying peanut 'hay' from anywhere but in the south will get me a far different product is very useful to note.
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02/07/11, 03:34 PM
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anything in your feeding program should be based on what it brings to the table, so heres the lowdown on perennial peanut hay
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02/07/11, 03:35 PM
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ok, that didnt copy right so heres the link, its on the bottom of the page
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/an234
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02/07/11, 04:20 PM
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I was referring to the grit and sandiness someone mentioned.
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The dirt would come from harvesting the nuts they dig up, whereas the forage type is cut like any other hay and would tend to be much cleaner
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That's a great article. It just reinforces that it's what I want my dairy girls on and the wethers that I'll fatten for the freezer. Where I live in Georgia the growing seasons are long, so in my ideal little plan I will rotate pastures and have very little time where I need to feed hay... and with 80 acres I think I can find a patch to grow my own.
For breeding bucks, does anyone have an opinion on what kind of mix to give them of it? I am wondering if there are dangers of urinary tract problems. And if cutting the peanut hay for the bucks with something like timothy would help.
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02/07/11, 04:52 PM
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my show mentor wont feed it to his bucks, but dose feed it to the kids and does. the kids take to it a lot faster because the leaves are smaller making it more nibble ready.
It does not grow well in Northern Ga I have to go south of Macon to get mine. My show mentor just got some from SC so I may go there this year. I cant get more than 15 bales on my truck so Im very stingy with it.
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