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Green feed - oats harvested in the boot stage - straw and all. Cows fight to get to it

I am sure lots of guys who know more than me will start some discussion on %tage content of "stuff" - me - I am not interested in that.

It is often cheap - cows love it - they stay healthy.

Plain oats - have fed it lots in the past. Some rolled - some whole.

Again - I am sure lots of guys who know more than me will start some discussion on %tage content of "stuff" - me - I am not interested in that.

It is cheap - cows love it - they stay healthy.

As for beet stuff - not available here - trucking is too expensive - so never feed it out.

There you go - stay well,

Berz
 
Bez, I don't know how to do the whole quote thing. Sorry. But since you have experience with oats and I don't , I need to ask a question. I have some oats to be baled this spring/summer. I was going to just bale them dry like any other fescue or rye but what do you think? Its awfully expensive here to bale haylage? Do you think its worth it or do oats alone make pretty good hay. I'm not into the whole % thing either so a simple opinion is fine with me?

Sorry to barge in on your topic cleav
thanks
 
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I have fed oat hay and it is good if baled before the grain will shater out. Afew years ago we worked some ground and planted winter wheat,frost seeded hay mix in feb. then mowed and baled in late june when the grain was in the dough stage. This made the best hay we ever fed 8) The down side was thousands of mice :shock:
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Mike
 
tripleS

I am in agreement with mwj - it is great feed.

Well, I do not know if I am an expert, or just someone who has made a pile of mistakes. The way we do it is to plant oats fairly thick – knowing full well they will not go into the combine.

When the oat has grown out and the seed is starting to hang – but still green – squeeze it between your thumb and forefinger. If the hull feels like there is a bit of seed in it, and there is a white milky substance that comes from the seed when squeezed – it is time to cut. A day or two early or late is not really a big deal – just do not let it ripen on the plant – you will lose a fair bit of oats.

We use a discbine. No matter what you use to cut it, slack off the rollers on the conditioner so as to not crush the seed completely.

Let it dry well and bale – round bales are better in my opinion, but we have done it in small squares and it works fine. Make sure you rake it real gentle so you do not shake out the seed. We generally cut our raking speed by one third. Takes a bit more time but the quality is real good.

Make sure it is good and dry before you bale it.

We have used what we generically call feed oats. Long straw and heavy seed head. When it gets cold here we like to throw a few of those bales to the cows with their normal free choice hay. Our cows will actually fight over this feed – so we have to throw out enough for them to have a good bite. Easy to find here, but the person who is in the know as far as I am concerned is a lady who often has it for sale in Manitoba. If you cannot find this feed oats and you are interested PM me for her phone number. They are Angus people and do a fine job all ‘round.

You are going to shake out some oats. When you are done, turn the cows in the field for a day or two and let them pick up the gleanings.

Pretty straight forward. If you have made hay you can do this. And, it’s real good feed.

Regards

Bez
 
also if you don't disc it all up and you do happen to let it go too long and knock some seeds out the regrowth and seeds make a good fall/ winter grazing
 
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I seed alfalfa or clover with oats in spring , I cut it in mid to late june when the oats is forming heaads and the alfafa or clover is started good, I bale it wet and wrap it for haylage (oats can be hard to dry) last year was wet and we got 2 cuttings of alfalfa after the oats. The cows really like the oatlage I don't know what the feed value is I never had any tested. Last year I used a forage oats called Jerry It seems to get taller and leafier before it starts to head . I planted some to combine for seed for next year but it didn't stand well when left to combine
 
We do the sames as Bez ,but with 2 differences .We seed later and swath the oats late in the fall ,but don,t bale it. We swath-graze it instead.
 

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