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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1273117" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>Good grass with its drawbacks. Watch for Ergot fungus poisoning. Doesnt happen often, mostly in wet conditions when there are a lot of seed heads. Calves will be the most effective or young cows. Once they get old they know not to over eat the fungus heads. This time of year i watch for twitchers. You can look at a calf when its looking at you and if you see its ears twitching, he's eating too many heads. If there are too many seed heads when you have cows in the dalis grass pasture, cut them down and that solves the problem. It can grow quick on a pasture that is free of the fungus. We put some calves on a pasture of dalis grass one year. It started raining and sometime during the rain the fungus broke out. Had about 20 calves get effected. They all recovered, but took weeks. I have a video somewhere of the pen of twitchers. If i get time i'll post it.</p><p>Another problem you can have with it is if you feed dalis grass hay. Never put the hay bale in the same spot if the hay is dalis grass hay. The seeds will add up on the ground when fed in the same spot time after time. The cows will overeat the seeds in the winter and bloat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1273117, member: 22072"] Good grass with its drawbacks. Watch for Ergot fungus poisoning. Doesnt happen often, mostly in wet conditions when there are a lot of seed heads. Calves will be the most effective or young cows. Once they get old they know not to over eat the fungus heads. This time of year i watch for twitchers. You can look at a calf when its looking at you and if you see its ears twitching, he's eating too many heads. If there are too many seed heads when you have cows in the dalis grass pasture, cut them down and that solves the problem. It can grow quick on a pasture that is free of the fungus. We put some calves on a pasture of dalis grass one year. It started raining and sometime during the rain the fungus broke out. Had about 20 calves get effected. They all recovered, but took weeks. I have a video somewhere of the pen of twitchers. If i get time i'll post it. Another problem you can have with it is if you feed dalis grass hay. Never put the hay bale in the same spot if the hay is dalis grass hay. The seeds will add up on the ground when fed in the same spot time after time. The cows will overeat the seeds in the winter and bloat. [/QUOTE]
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