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Hello,  I was in this conversation w/ a friend and he told me he had =
some good pasture to put his horses on for the winter and I told him =
that grass loses its nutritional value after a killing frost.  He asked =
me how I knew this and all I could say was I had read it somewhere.  Now =
my question is?  Was this assumption an illusion or does grass indeed =
lose its nutritional value?  and if so by how much and it just a filler =
as I had reckoned.  Or, do I tell him I have been misinformed?  Thank =
you,  tom sites

The grass does lose some of its nutritional value but it also retains allot 
of it Tom . We don't graze our bottom grounds in the summer instead we keep 
it growing and then turn our horses  into it in the late fall and use it for 
a winter feed which is a common practice for some  . Our animals stay on 
this until the snow gets to deep for them to paw and then we start feeding 
them hay . The horses stay fat and sassy with no other supplements except 
for salt and some mineral . So I am not sure of the exact percentage's of 
what the grass loses and what it retains but it is way more than just a 
filler for animals .
                                 Drin Becker
                                 Mtn Region 


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