Re: pearl's list update

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> > > > > > > > The figures I've worked out, using industry data, is total
> feed
> > > > > > > > (grain + silage/hay) required for beef gain.
> > > > > > > ======================
> > > > > > > Here's where you start lying...   There is no 'requirment' for
> > > > > > > grains+silage/hay for beef to gain weight....
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> > > > > > CATTLE FEEDING GUIDE
> > > > > > 07/09/2002
> > > > > > The cow's natural diet consists of grass and they can maintain
> > > > > > themselves on grass alone. However, they will soon lose condition
> > > > > > on this unsupplemented diet. For good all year round productivity
> > > > > > generous and careful feeding is *required* from calfhood right
> > > > > > through the animal's life.
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> > > > > What a hoot.  Wonder why they weren't extinct...
> > > >
> > > > Because in their natural form they were not restricted to any
> > > > specific geographical location, but free to migrate.
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> > > And that migration determines their diet how?
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> http://www.agr.gov.sk.ca/docs/livestock/bison/production_information/bisonpa
> st.asp
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> LOL  That didn't change their diet, fool.
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> "Grasses are often reported at 90-100% of the diet, depending on the
> availability and time of year. In northern and mountainous environments
> where upland grasses are limited, sedges and wetland grasses dominate the
> diet."  The other 'choices' are 'forbs and the leaves, twigs, and bark of
> trees and shrubs'.
> Let's see, grains...nope, doesn't even show up on that page...

BISON.  NOT cattle.  DOLT.