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Reading Mn | Was going threw SD and seen alot of cattails baled up.People feeding them?I wouldn't think they would eat them or have any feed value. |
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| They make great bedding. Plus, I think most guys are trying to get rid of the cover so they can farm those areas so they will qualify for prevent plant again. |
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ne south dakota | Alot of the cattails are baled to get them off the land without burning them. They make good beding. bozranch |
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Baldwin City, KS | Around here, cat tails only grow in low marshy areas that you can't even cross, much less try to farm. What exactly is going on up there with all the cat tails? |
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South-East South Dakota | Its that dry here that those spots are dry enough to bale up. Plus its the best way to get it off the ground to try to farm it next year. And it will make as good of bedding as 100$ a ton straw. |
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Reading Mn | All the potholes are bone dry. |
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WY, OK | We've put them up, usually just on the edge of a field, never seen a cow eat them. Would make great bedding. They would 100% eat them then. |
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S.E. Iowa | Yeah I agree with that!!! |
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| They will eat them, but they won't like it :).
I make a lot of marsh hay (a lot more than usual this year too) and one thing I'll say about cattails is the cattle like them better than purple loosestrife or nutsedge, but that ain't saying much about the word "like".
Edited by tjdub 10/20/2012 20:27
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| Cows will eat them, but they don't seem to like them. Where I calve my cows there is a cattail slough I usually get hayed every other year. I put a cattail bale in a bale feeder and they do eat them. The cows get silage/ground hay in turned tires to meet their daily requirements. |
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Cattails for hay?
