Forage preference

[dun]

The cows will eat the spiny parts of pigweed, the heads off of OG, millet, milo, and fescue. They'll eat all of the plant of goose grass and even barnyard grass. But the won;t eat the seed heads from crabgrass. Problem is right now all of the crabgrass has gone to seed and that's 90% of what's left to eat. The won;t even reach through the stuff to eat the leaves. I'll bet if I baled the stuff they would think it's candy come winter.

 

[grannysoo]

Bale it and set it beside the molassas lick and watch it vanish.... They won't be able to get enough of it.

 

[TSR]

Dun that's amazing to me, I have planted about 20 acres of red river crabgrass and my cows love it(the entire plant) and it does make a lot of high quality hay. Yours must be a different variety or my Tennessee cows must have different taste buds than your Missouri cows. lol BTW I always try to wait to bale the crabgrass when the seed heads are mature, it promotes next yrs crop.

 

[dun]

Dun that's amazing to me, I have planted about 20 acres of red river crabgrass and my cows love it(the entire plant) and it does make a lot of high quality hay. Yours must be a different variety or my Tennessee cows must have different taste buds than your Missouri cows. lol BTW I always try to wait to bale the crabgrass when the seed heads are mature, it promotes next yrs crop.

This is just the old native wirey stemmed and seed headed crabgrass.

 

[Beefy]

i dont believe that you have pigweed.

 

[dun]

i dont believe that you have pigweed.

I'll be more then happy to ship you some of the seed. You won;t even have to pay shipping!

 

[Beefy]

no thanks, i'm afraid its too dry here to plant. there is some mutant pigweed going on here that gets taller than me and i'm 6 foot 2. its a buggar.

 

[Running Arrow Bill]

Pigweed doesn't need water, soil, fertilizer, sunshine, or anything to reproduce, grow, and invade pastures and yards.