I personaly always figured around 25lbs of hay per day for a average size cow when i was putting up hay. Alot of that of course they can get if pasture is available/accessable. Multiply that by your number of cows x average days you actually have to feed. It varies so much because of the weather,type of hay etc that it would be hard to give an exact number of course. but here in central /western okla,i always tried to have at least enough to feed 60 days.So say you had 100 cows x 25 =2500 lbs a day X 60.Idealy you could do as my grandad did,and never feed hay. His stocking rates were so low that he never fed a bale of hay. The very few times the cattle couldnt find or get to anything he simply fed cubes.But that was many years ago,and most folks hold way more cattle per acre.His stocking rate was normaly 1 cow per thirty acres or less.And he rotated pastures religeously. I never knew him to have a bale of hay on the place. but theres very seldom cattle cant graze at least some here.
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