Kudzu and chickens

[McChooky]

The plant is 18 percent protein and can grow a foot a day! with proper management it should be excellent for fodder! ALso, because the leaves are so high in protein my worms will reproduce very quickly if fed a diet of this stuff!

My advise is buy property where Kudzu is already established .Why you'd want to plant it where it doesn't exist makes no sense.It can cover a house.

 

[McChooky]

I was terrified of getting bitten by a rattler or copperhead where I picked some for my chickens.It grows pretty high off the ground and completely hides everything underneath killing everything else that grows there.

 

[McChooky]

I was terrified of getting bitten by a rattler or copperhead where I picked some for my chickens.It grows pretty high off the ground and completely hides everything underneath killing everything else that grows there.

There were paths that wildlife used that led under the thick foliage. God knows what used those paths or how far it went ....They were pretty big openings.Big enough to hide a coyote or other predator.I wouldn't want it near my livestock...

 

[Brooks_]

My advise is buy property where Kudzu is already established

Or go harvest it. You can't take that kudzu...said no one, ever.

I was terried of getting bit by a rattler or copperhead where I picked some for my chickens.It grows pretty high off the ground and completely hides everything underneath

That's a legit concern.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I'm unwilling to risk it, even planted inside a concrete ring, and even though I have goats and acres between my run and my closest property line.

I am not normally a risk averse person.

It truly is that invasive, almost completely lacking in natural controls, and the rhizomes off the root balls are somehow more destructive than bamboo runners. Besides which, when the plant grows outside its containment, parts of it can take root in fresh ground, and begin a plant outside containment.

Goats are used for control. FIRE and excavation is needed for eradication.

 

[Brooks_]

I'm unwilling to risk it, even planted inside a concrete ring, and even though I have goats and acres between my run and my closest property line.

I am not normally a risk averse person.

It truly is that invasive, almost completely lacking in natural controls, and the rhizomes off the root balls are somehow more destructive than bamboo runners. Besides which, when the plant grows outside its containment, parts of it can take root in fresh ground, and begin a plant outside containment.

Goats are used for control. FIRE and excavation is needed for eradication.

I agree.

Basically, any pro of the plant is far outweighed by the con.

 

[McChooky]

I'm unwilling to risk it, even planted inside a concrete ring, and even though I have goats and acres between my run and my closest property line.

I am not normally a risk averse person.

It truly is that invasive, almost completely lacking in natural controls, and the rhizomes off the root balls are somehow more destructive than bamboo runners. Besides which, when the plant grows outside its containment, parts of it can take root in fresh ground, and begin a plant outside containment.

Goats are used for control. FIRE and excavation is needed for eradication.

Imagine a tap root weighing 400 lbs!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Imagine a tap root weighing 400 lbs!

Actually, I plant Asparagus. You should Google/Youtube removal of a mature asparagus root. Arthichokes are similar, but not as deep. Kudzu is hardly alone in that. So yes, I can imagine.

 

[McChooky]

Actually, I plant Asparagus. You should Google/Youtube removal of a mature asparagus root. Arthichokes are similar, but not as deep. Kudzu is hardly alone in that. So yes, I can imagine.

Wow! I've never grown any !! Thanks!

 

[McChooky]

Actually, I plant Asparagus. You should Google/Youtube removal of a mature asparagus root. Arthichokes are similar, but not as deep. Kudzu is hardly alone in that. So yes, I can imagine.

I bought a couple acres 20 + years ago and hired a guy with heavy equipment to level a place for a home. They took every tree and shrub on it but the Japanese Knotweed came back .Even using black plastic to block the sun didn't kill it out but it slowed it down.