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I've lost cattle that got into the stored grains too. I think he is talking about grazing, or making hay of, the oats as green grass. Not harvesting it as grain???? I don't know much about horses, so I can't offer much help on that part of it. Young oats could be high in nitrates, or other issues. As hay will be good, for grazing & a hosre, I'd want expert advise so as not to create real problems. Works well for making forage for cattle. I let my oats field regrow after harvest, real soon now I will fence in the oats (green plant, 1/2 way to setting seed maybe), some soybean stubble, and mostly cornstalks and let the cattle have at it. They really enjoy that, until the snow gets deep. They like the ears of corn, the husks & leaves of corn, the oats, and the dry soybean hulls. If it stays dry, it is fun to watch threm go after the soy hulls. They don't like them much if it rains a lot. For planting forage oats, if the ground is mellow, disking, broadcast, & dragging would be best. If the ground is hard or has a lot of trash on top, a couple of diskings, broadcast seed, and disk it in gentley will work best. For what is wanted, it will be hard to go wrong if you can catch a rain within a week of doing the broadcasting, don't worry about it too much, just do it. :) Oats grows easily if it can get a rain, plant it a bit heavier if the ground isn't worked the best. --->Paul
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