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J

Jack-Iowa

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anyone have any experience feeding canary grass to horses? supposedly it is good for them.but no one I know is using it and it is a lot more reasonable than brome grass and thinking of the field for next year.
 
Unless this is a different strain that what was around 70 years ago don't do it. We had it at the homestead. It is much worse than quack grass. It cannot be iradicated. It becomes very coarse and hence does not lend itself to feeding to any form of livestock.

JMHO

Areo
 
cut it before it heads then again in fall and cattle eat it, don't know about horses, had alot of it in waterways during wet years but repeated haying is letting the fine grasses take over again
 
It makes great bedding, but it's awfully coarse for feed. If we cut the swamp early enough in the summer, we can get a 2nd cutting on it and it's quite a bit more tender. The heifers will eat that, but not much nutrition to it.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Ditto that. I dont think the cattle really like it that much. When its cold and nothing else to eat, they eat the hay. But they would prefer something else.
Mike
 
I sure hope no one tells my cows and horses that they shouldn't like to eat it. They'd be mighty darn hungry by spring! I don't feed it exclusivly, but at least half of their winter feed supply is canary grass. And they clean up every bit of it too. No waste.
Now, I should have clarified that I feed canary GRASS, not reed canary. Big difference in the two. Reed canary is nothing but a hollow stemed tube with some fuzzy crap on top. I don't feed that. I also don't feed what we call "rip gut". The blades on that are sharp enough to cut your skin. Much like a paper cut.
 
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