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Oxbow Oat Hay, 425 g, transparent

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Oxbow (Australia), supply their range of hays at various locations around Australia, the link to these can be found here: http://www.oxbowaustralia.com/retail-locations/ Kaytee, supply varieties of Timothy hay, some have added herbs or fruit, orchard grass and a ‘fortified hay’ is also supplied, this has added vitamin C but is also high in fat. The moisture content for all the varieties is low (12%) so these hays might be dry and not store well: https://www.kaytee.com/all-products/small-animal/hay#facets=Small Animal by Species:Guinea Pig;Small Animal by Product Type:hay Malik, R.; Paynter, B.; Webster, C.; McLarty, A., 2011. Growing oats in Western Australia for hay and grain. Dept. Agric. Food. Government of Western Australia, Bull. N° 4798 Oats can also be left standing until completely ripe and then combined with a grain head. This causes greater field losses as the grain falls from the heads, and to harvesting losses, as the grain is threshed out by the reel. Without a draper head, there is also more damage to the straw, since it is not properly oriented as it enters the combine's throat. Overall yield loss is 10–15% compared to proper swathing.

When introduced gradually into their diet alongside other appropriate sources of nutrition, such as fresh grass or legume hays, oats pose no significant risk. First and foremost, oat hay boasts a commendable fiber content that works wonders for promoting healthy digestion in goats. Some whole oat groats break during the de-hulling process so additional processing of the groats is required. Groats are sized again and separated by length and width using shaker screens and indent cylinders until uniform product streams are generated. Modern oat milling technologies also sort impurities by colour with colour sorting machines or more traditionally, on specific gravity with paddy tables or gravity table separators. A final grade of whole oat groats should have minimal oat hulls, other seeds or broken groats.Oat bran is the outer casing of the oat. Its daily consumption over weeks lowers LDL and total cholesterol, possibly reducing the risk of heart disease. [1] [19] Before we dive into the nitty-gritty details of goat nutrition, let me entice you with some fascinating facts about goats. Lamacchia C, Camarca A, Picascia S, Di Luccia A, Gianfrani C (Jan 29, 2014). "Cereal-based gluten-free food: how to reconcile nutritional and technological properties of wheat proteins with safety for celiac disease patients". Nutrients. 6 (2): 575–90. doi: 10.3390/nu6020575. PMC 3942718. PMID 24481131. Oats are best grown in temperate regions. They have a lower summer heat requirement and greater tolerance of rain than other cereals, such as wheat, rye or barley, so they are particularly important in areas with cool, wet summers, such as Northwest Europe and even Iceland. Oats are an annual plant, and can be planted either in autumn/fall (for late summer harvest) or in the spring (for early autumn harvest). Oat crown rust". Cereal Disease Laboratory. United States Department of Agriculture| Agricultural Research Service. 18 April 2008 . Retrieved 15 November 2015.

DM intake is an important indicator for measuring the production and health of ruminants, and the digestibility of DM and OM can reflect the digestive characteristics of an animal’s diet. For a diet with a concentrate content less than 10%, the DM intake of roughage will increase with an increase in the grain content in the concentrate, and the proportion of grain in the concentrate will increase from 10% to 70%, leading to a decrease in the DM intake of roughage [ 26]. Studies have also shown that the proportion of concentrate in diets is positively correlated with the apparent digestibility of DM [ 27]. In this study, although the differences in DM intake, digestion and apparent digestibility between the three groups were not significant, an increase in oat hay content in the diet tended to increase these metrics. Therefore, hay was beneficial for increasing DM intake, digestibility and apparent digestibility in sheep. In our study, the apparent digestibility of OM did not differ significantly among the three groups, which might have been due to the increased feed intake of the test sheep, while the retention time of various nutrients in the rumen was shortened, preventing those nutrients from being fully digested and absorbed. These results were consistent with those from other reports that different feeding levels have no significant impacts on the apparent digestibility of DM and OM [ 28]. Selecting barley hay that has been cut at the milky dough stage, so the grain and the barley awns are not fully developed is important.

It provides essential fiber, vitamins, and minerals that contribute to goats’ overall health and digestion. Thondehaalmath, Tejas; Kulaar, Dilsher Singh; Bondada, Ramesh; Maruthachalam, Ravi (2021). "Understanding and exploiting uniparental genome elimination in plants: insights from Arabidopsis thaliana". Journal of Experimental Botany. 72 (13): 4646–4662. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erab161. PMID 33851980. S2CID 242417200. RB ORCID 0000-0002-8869-1947. RM ORCID 0000-0003-0036-3330. Guinea pig needs balanced nutrition in their diet. So, you have to choose good food for them to feed regularly. If you feed certain nutrients too much, it can cause various medical issues. Oat hay contains high fat and proteins, so you can’t feed it every day. Can’t be fed too much Oat hay is best cut when the oat seed is out of the milk stage and into the dough. This ensures a high quality product still showing some color with good carbohydrate content and sweetness in the stem. Cutting at the proper time means animals will eat the entire hay stem with little waste. Oat hay, like all grass hays, meets the nutritional needs of herbivores that need high fiber and low protein."

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