Bamboo

[skyhightree1]

We did a job yesterday and I had a ton of bamboo leaves and stalks I brought them home to give to neighbors and my grandmother who still fish with a cane pole. I parked the truck and trailer with the bamboo in a small pasture where I burn trash and rotted wood I got up this morning and the cattle ate the crap out of the bamboo I got worried and looked up online cattle eating bamboo and apparently its ok for them to eat and some people feed it to them. I guess if you are short on hay and have a good supply of bamboo let them have it. :2cents:

 

[Deepsouth]

Bamboo is a grass.

 

[dun]

Bamboo is a grass.

And I think it's classified as the fastest growing grass there is.

 

[skyhightree1]

True but the leaves on the stalks don't look like normal grass which worried me.

 

[TexasBred]

Sounds like what we use to call "switch cane". Our fishing pole source. lol Shafts on bamboo gets very big and the plant can be 50 ft. tall or more.

 

[skyhightree1]

Sounds like what we use to call "switch cane". Our fishing pole source. lol Shafts on bamboo gets very big and the plant can be 50 ft. tall or more.

yea some of that stuff was huge I posted a pic of some in what are you seeing today in coffee shop

 

[dun]

I brush hogged our stand of it tehm turned the cows in a couple of days later. They fought each other to keep the stuff eaten down. Did much better on that then the existing range grass or prickly pear cactus pads

 

[Craig Miller]

I bet theres just enough left on the ground to get it started growing on your place. Only takes a little and you cursed for life

 

[greybeard]

I bet theres just enough left on the ground to get it started growing on your place. Only takes a little and you cursed for life

It's like tallow--nobody has just one.
Once it gets growing, and it only takes one green joint, bamboo has to have every root dug up to get rid of it.

 

[skyhightree1]

[, bamboo has to have every root dug up to get rid of it.

Very true... When we remove a large amount we use the dozer .Bamboo stobs will poke a hole in a tire quicker than greased owl S...