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Tom, we have a pasture of about 100 acres that is supporting seven horses quite
well so far. Our total moisture this year is 3.2 inches where the average
is about 7.4 for this time of the year.
Now,
the price you have to pay for pasture in this country is annual grasses like
downy brome (cheat grass) Rush Skeleton Weed, Rabbit Brush, Thistles, Prickly
Lettuce, False Dandelion, and all those other things called noxious weeds. The
horses eat them all and do quite well. Then they top it all off with a bit of
poplar leaves, a few locust buds and some Fillaree for desert.
Just
get out the "Weeds of the West" and you can find the contents of our
pasture.
We do
have to supplement a bale of hay per day now it it really dry.
No
sign of moisture until mid September.
Bob
Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID
Just returning from mowing dry weeds and another pasture
just seeded this spring dying (such beautiful clover it was or may be if we
get some rain). And reading on RC other parts of the country having the
same problem (yesterdays Washington Post front page Drought.... and the end
times here now) There has to be a forage that can grow in these
climatic extremes and provide sustanence to the herds thruout the world.
Being an Ornamental Horticulterist, not an Olericulterist, or a Turf or Forage
Specialist. What is this forage for pasture? tom
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