Beets

[Dave]

The wife is cleaning up the old over grown produce in the garden. The 14 dink calves in the corral get to dine on a bucket or a wheel barrow full nearly every afternoon. She had to take an axe to these beets to chop them into bite size pieces for the calves. But the calves cleaned them up.

 

[coachg]

2 on the front looked like turnips but the stems and leaves are definitely beets ! They tell me deer love them , not surprised cattle do too .

 

[Farm Family]

Well I had some deer pull up a whole row of beets and they never ate a single one…meanwhile I had to process the whole works…that was the end of a fenceless garden.

 

[greybeard]

I never met a beet (or it's juice) that I didn't hate.

 

[Travlr]

2 on the front looked like turnips but the stems and leaves are definitely beets ! They tell me deer love them , not surprised cattle do too .

LOL.. the sheep ate some of my butternuts that crawled through the fence last year.

 

[Travlr]

I never met a beet (or it's juice) that I didn't hate.

IMO, the greens are better than Swiss chard or spinach. But then... a lot of people never developed a taste for anything but potatoes and corn.

 

[greybeard]

What the heck is swiss chard and why would I want to eat it?
I have yet to find any green other than cabbage that actually has taste all on it's own. What you do taste is whatever it's cooked or seasoned with.

 

[Dave]

I never met a beet (or it's juice) that I didn't hate.

I like beets. But they need to be younger smaller ones. When they get this big they are pretty woody. And I don't really care for cabbage.

 

[Cowman42]

We are deep in sugar beet country here. Lots of folks feed truck loads of beet pulp instead of hay through the winter. I had a guy up the road grow an 80 of "Mangelwurzel". Called fodder beet in Europe, close relative to the sugar beet. Anyhow guy was growing them for deer bait and that year the state stopped baiting due to disease in the deer herd. Old guy got stuck with them. Sold cheap. I picked some up and fed it. Cattle LOVE beets. They are initially put off by the strong smell, but after one of them started licking it, it was on. I only had one little Highland X cow that wouldn't go near the stuff. That same cow won't eat apples or carrots either though.

 

[Ouachita]

Somebody needs a big mess of poke salad.

 

[greybeard]

Gator got your granny...........

 

[greybeard]

https://www.cattletoday.com/threads/daily-chuckle.125043/post-1823577
Remember this always!!!

 

[StrojanHerefords]

I have friends in New Zealand who winter calves on beets. They get over a ton of liveweight gain per acre. https://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/rural-management/fodder-beet-has-changed-beef-farming

 

[Hpacres440p]

Made some roasted beets yesterday-man were they tasty! Sent hub's blood sugar through the roof though…

 

[Travlr]

Made some roasted beets yesterday-man were they tasty! Sent hub's blood sugar through the roof though…

I've started to oven roast carrots lately, instead of making French fries.