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I would suggest a feed effectiveness ranking similar to the following:

1. TMR - 100%
2. Grass (grazed or fresh cut)/ silage / hay + concentrates - 85-90% 
3. Grass (grazed or fresh cut) / hay / silage alone - 75 - 80%
4. Meadow grass (i.e. lower quality pasture, not fertilised or improved) - 60%

Various feed trials / research would indicate that TMR fed cows are higher yielding than those fed grass alone or fed grass + concentrates (even when well managed pasture systems are considered). 

I love this mod, really good work. It's great to be able to graze cattle and sheep together. 

Couple of suggestions / things that I've noticed:

• The freeform pasture, and the animals in it, apear in the base game husbandry menu, but RLRM doesn't see them - they disappear from the animal inventory when you click on  "Manage Animals".

• It would be good to be able to see the % effectiveness of the "ground forage" (or even better, for the player to be able to set the effectiveness themselves).

I'm always on the lookout for anything that improves realism regarding animal feeding. Looking forward to checking out that mod when it's complete. Great work on all your mods, thanks for sharing them.

Hi, I see in the screenshot that food is broken down into Pasture Grazing Apr-Oct, Winter Hay Feed Nov-Mar, Silage Supplement, and Winter Roots. Are you using a mod to get that or did you edit the animals feed configuration yourself?