Kudzu and chickens

[Sally PB]

Thank goodness we get hard enough freezes that it doesn't grow in my climate.

 

[McChooky]

Can I buy some live plants from you?

I gathered them in the wild .The look like they'd be hard to dig up on the hillside where they're growing.All I saw was thick foliage above the ground with thick rope like vines.The stuff will cover a house once it gets established if you don't aggressively cut it every year. Best grown in the wilderness lol They have a large tap root.

 

[SunflowerKing]

I picked some for my chickens this summer but was afraid it might spread so I quit giving it to them .I cut the large leaves into smaller pieces with scissors before feeding it to them.When I picked it I got a bag at a time and stored it in the refrigerator.That way I only had to pick it once a week.They liked it better if they didn't eat it every day obviously lol

My plan is to have it contained for grazing purposes.

I gathered them in the wild .The look like they'd be hard to dig up on the hillside where they're growing.All I saw was thick foliage above the ground with thick rope like vines.The stuff will cover a house once it gets established if you don't aggressively cut it every year. Best grown in the wilderness lol

I just want some roots and crowns. I have a design specifically for this plant that I think will help contain them.

 

[McChooky]

My plan is to have it contained for grazing purposes.

I just want some roots and crowns. I have a design specifically for this plant that I think will help contain them.

I've only read how to control it not grow it LOl One video I watched said the tap root can weigh 400 lbs LOL

 

[SunflowerKing]

I've only read how to control it not grow it LOl One video I watched said the tap root can weigh 400 lbs LOL

Fair enough, I figured Id ask.

 

[McChooky]

Fair enough, I figured Id ask.

I'm not in that good of shape .Its growing on a steep rocky hillside! Its growing all over the south on the side of the road.People pay you to dig it up and take it with you.

 

[Brooks_]

My plan is to have it contained for grazing purposes.

Good luck with that.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Good luck with that.

Agree. I'm imagining a concrete containment system, like used for bamboo - only Kudzu requires more agressive efforts even than that...

 

[SunflowerKing]

I'm not in that good of shape .Its growing on a steep rocky hillside! Its growing all over the south on the side of the road.People pay you to dig it up a

Agree. I'm imagining a concrete containment system, like used for bamboo - only Kudzu requires more agressive efforts even than that...

I was thinking of having a patch fenced in by cattle panel and put it right in the center of a goat and chicken pen. Thoughts?

 

[McChooky]

I was thinking of having a patch fenced in by cattle panel and put it right in the center of a goat and chicken pen. Thoughts?

They'd eat it before it could get esstablished