Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1889 — Wetting Feed is Wasteful. [ARTICLE]

Wetting Feed is Wasteful.

A writer on this subject says he changed from dry feed of grain for his cow to putting it into a pail of warm water night and morning. At the end of three months she had lost fifty pounds in weight of flesh, and her milk had fallen off nearly one-half. She seemed to be getting little benefit from her rations and there was a general running do wnTn condition. He then changed the food back to dry, and in three months the cow regained all she had lost in flesh and milk during the preceding three months. While feeding this he could never detect any waste of food in the fmces, but in the wetted food he could. Feeding horses wet food sometimes produces dangerous attacks of colic, but in cows there is no danger of it.