Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling

Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by jarebear6expepj on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:07PM (#36407129)

Luckily horses do not _need_ alfalfa. Farmers love growing alfalfa because if you give it sun and water in the right setting you can get damn near 14 cuts off a field of it in one year. This by comparison puts a grass hay field or even a nice neutral horse feed, Timothy grass, to shame. Alfalfa is a nutrient dense power bar that is given to horses kept in boxes. I would argue a happy horse would have a range of grassland to graze on, vs compressed cubes or squares of dense, sugary alfalfa that is replacing a normal ration.

tldr: alfalfa is an unnatural food for unnaturally kept horses

source: have horses on range land.

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Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by dreamcompiler on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:26PM (#36409999)

Agreed. We have several packs of wild horses near where I live in the mountains of New Mexico--so many that some people find them a nuisance. They thrive quite nicely on whatever they can find, and they certainly don't find alfalfa.

(Aside: Anybody who wants free horses to break (not to turn into dog food), let me know.)

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