Overseeding a forage pasture - advice needed

[digitS']

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Well, you are talking about perennial grasses like bluegrass and legumes like clover. Wheat, cereal rye, sunflowers, millet, etc. are annual grains.

The best decision will have to take into account your local climate and soil. I still think your best source of information is likely to be the local Coop. Ex. office. These are county/university programs to bring information like this to the local citizens.

There are dozens if not hundreds of grass and legume varieties. Buying a mix that is suitable for one part of the country provides no guarantee that it will be suitable any place else.

Steve

 

[ziggywiggy]

This is a little experiment I'm trying to cut my feed bill. I let them in to eat an hour per day and they love it. Next year I am going to enlarge it and add some wheat. The good thing about cool season grass is, once it is established it takes very little water to maintain.
You can see that nothing else is green except their little pasture.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

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More data please.

I was gonna plant it till I just read that it is prolly to late in the year to sow it, but still interested in the reason it's for not good for chickens.

thanks, catdaddy

It depends on where you are.

I just planted some rye yesterday, and I have planted as late as the middle of December

My chickens were following me around and eating it until I got it plowed in, and they are all still alive! LOL

 

[twentynine]

Winter pasture in southern states---- rye grass, rape, turnips, clover.

Rye grass bad for chickens! Well it may not be the most nutricious but it ain't bad. If it were bad my birds would be dead. They have been eating rye grass for 2 month.

 

[elmo]

cereal rye is good:

http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/ccrop.EXE/show_crop_12