Whether putting food in the refrigerator, the freezer, or the cupboard, you have plenty of opportunities to prevent foodborne illnesses. One of the basics of food safety is cooking food to its proper temperature.
Re: Average hay consumption. A cow needs about 3 per cert of its body weight in roughage a day, a 1000 lb cow needs 30 lbs of hay if it has no other source of roughage.
Typically, a beef animal will consume three percent of its weight in dry matter. So for 1,000 pound beef cow that is 30 lbs. of dry matter a day. On average, dry hay is 88% dry matter, which means that the beef cow needs 34 lbs. of baled hay as fed per day to meet her intake. If we look at feeding our cow herd winter feed October through March, which would be about 180 days, each cow will consume about 3.06 tons of hay during that time period.