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Delbert

03-01-2006 17:25:31




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I have rented some fescue hay ground. What my question is do i put it up just once a year like broomgrass or can it be put up more often? I live in east central Kansas. Neighbors tell me to graze it heavy early spring, put up the hay and graze it again in fall. What do you do with the stuff? Thanks for your input. Delbert




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barnrat

03-02-2006 15:51:48




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to Delbert, 03-01-2006 17:25:31  
I get 4-5 cuttings of fescue up here in western NY. I know it depends quite a bit on what variety you have. Kentucky 31, which is what most fescue is won't yield as well as some of the newer varieties.



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farmermatt

03-02-2006 05:20:57




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to Delbert, 03-01-2006 17:25:31  
If management was pefect you could probably get an early grazing season and bale later. Here in neKS we bale fairly early (first week of June) and graze in fall and winter. Could get a thin cutting late in the summer if we wanted.



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kyhayman

03-01-2006 19:50:23




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to Delbert, 03-01-2006 17:25:31  
Its a function of water and nitrogen. We get 2-3 cuttings a year, plus three grazings in a normal year.



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edchainsaw

03-01-2006 18:48:15




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to Delbert, 03-01-2006 17:25:31  
I know here in Indiana I've put some up 3times

I would think you can get 2 with out any trouble.



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old

03-01-2006 18:06:53




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to Delbert, 03-01-2006 17:25:31  
Fescue is one of those things I try to kill off but it just doesn't die. In a good year you can bale it twice but most years I only get one cutting



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txgrn

03-04-2006 06:33:17




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to old, 03-01-2006 18:06:53  
Don't fight it, feed it. Grin Down here we're feeding anything we can get. As it turns out, the only pasture I have right now is Fescue. Cows love it and I'm tickled. I bale it in the summer, mixed with coastal bermuda, and feed horses and cattle. Good hay.

Mark



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Bill(Wis)

03-04-2006 09:48:59




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to txgrn, 03-04-2006 06:33:17  
I've always been told to never feed fescue to horses so never did. You don't have problems?



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mtgummibear

03-04-2006 10:14:30




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-04-2006 09:48:59  
You are mostly right. Pregnant mares can"t have fescue for the last three months (at least) of pregnancy. But it"s not the grass but a bacterium that grows on the grass. Mostly, I think, in warm climates.

We are in Georgia and didn"t treat the warnings seriously enough and lost two foals last year. One was stillborn and the other died after a few days as the bacterium also affects the Mare"s milk.

By the way this applies to both fesuce hay and pasture grazing. It"s a case of better safe than sorry.

Larry

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barnrat

03-04-2006 15:40:56




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to mtgummibear, 03-04-2006 10:14:30  
Your thinking of endophytes. Most newer varieties of fescue are endophyte free, except for lawn fescue and Kentucky 31(most prominant). I don't know horses but agree that endophytes can raise heck with cows in terms of reproduction.



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txgrn

03-04-2006 06:32:25




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to old, 03-01-2006 18:06:53  
Don't fight it, feed it. Grin Down here we're feeding anything we can get. As it turns out, the only pasture I have right now is Fescue. Cows love it and I'm tickled. I bale it in the summer, mixed with coastal bermuda, and feed horses and cattle. Good hay.

Mark



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old

03-04-2006 07:23:21




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to txgrn, 03-04-2006 06:32:25  
I do feed it but its one of the worset things you can feed. With horses its real bad and causes problems and even in cows it can cause probelm with bitrhing and milk production



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barnrat

03-04-2006 09:39:54




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 Re: Fescue hay in reply to old, 03-04-2006 07:23:21  
I grow primarily fescue or festulolium(fescue ryegrass hybrid). I feed it to my dairy cows and heifers. It tests well on protien and energy, and is more digestable then orchard grass or timothy. I put most of it up as silage or graze it. My herd milks well off of it and I don't have any calving problems.



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