Making silage on a small scale from lawn clippings

[Magnumchicken]

Thank you for updating. It's nice to know what happened so we can all learn from them, even if you didn't get the result you wanted.



Do you have a source for that?

"Lucerne" and "alfalfa" are definitely two names for the same plant, but I have never heard of it being called "Lycene," and google didn't find it either.

Ahaha yea I meant Lucerne. Sorry about that. Lycene is the amino acid.

 

[NatJ]

Ahaha yea I meant Lucerne. Sorry about that. Lycene is the amino acid.

"Lysine" is the usual spelling of the amino acid, although it would probably be pronounced the same as "lycene."

There sure are a bunch of similar-looking words in this language! (I had to look up "lycopene," something found in tomatoes, just to make sure I wasn't mixing the others up with it either.)

 

[Stik Witit]

I started doing this in small bags (13 gal.) this year. Nothing special just packing as good as possible and closing as tight as possible. After 1 month I opened one of the first bags and it smelled like silage, so I feed some to my yearling cattle - they thought it was candy. They are very messy eating it and there are always chickens around, but there doesn't seem to be any left anywhere so I am assuming the chickens are cleaning the ground and trough. There was some light mold where a bag had a hole and where the seal was not tight, but the calves didn't care. I grew up on a dairy farm and cows ate silage that was way worse. I am now using 30 gal barrels with bags (2 bags per barrel) and sealed lids. I am saving them for winter.

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome @Stik Witit !
Love your very original name here too. Having zero experience making silage, it's not happening here. Also, we have horses, so no use for silage otherwise. All the best with this project though. We leave grass clippings right where they fall, as fertilizer for the ground, and if the birds eat it, that's fine too. No raking, no storage problems for us. Lazy? Sure!
Mary