nassau
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About to start implementing a summer feeding program of cotton seed on our south ga river lease.
Anyone have any insight on this?
Anyone have any insight on this?
I second this.I LOVE a late season field of picked cotton for bucks. Other than feeling concealed in the field, they love munching on un-picked cotton bolls for the seed. It's very high in protein....in the 40's, percentage wise. Cotton seed meal, because of that protein content is a supplement in cattle feed. It's good stuff. So good that you have to limit the amount fed or the mama cow's milk can cause the calf to scour.
My favorite "food plot" from say, Christmas until the end of the season, is a field of cotton. It can be magic.
Think of all the moonpies eaten by young boys in the south years ago. If I'm not mistaken moonpies are made with cottonseed meal.Just remember to stop feeding it before they loose their velvet. Cottonseed contains a chemical called gossypol and it makes male animals sterile. The gossypol toxicity stops when the animal stops eating it. Cattle farmers have to be careful with their bulls eating cottonseed.
Looked it up but what is the cost?Don’t know why my pics post upside down.