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Have any of you horse guys tried feeding it? I bought some for my llamas this fall and they love the stuff. They eat it more readily than most grass hays. I've read that it's getting very popular with horse people all over they country and I thought I'd give it a try. It's an annual but that helps keep the weeds out. It's hard to find around here, though. A farmer near me who has a dozen horses planted some this summer to see how they liked it and he's happy with it. I got mine from him.
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Never heard of it. Googling it,it says it is a warm weather forage .Probably why we haven't had any around here in Colorado
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It seems to grow pretty well here. It requires warm soil and a very shallow planting depth. I read that you can get 3 cuttings if your season allows enough time before the 1st frost. It can't take any frost at all.
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Never heard of it. Googling it,it says it is a warm weather forage .Probably why we haven't had any around here in Colorado Same
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Southern Idaho is kind of a banana belt in the NW. We have fairly long growing seasons and usually don't get a serious frost until late Sept. Many years we can get 4 cuttings of alfalfa. I'd guess that AK and CO are too cold for it to grow well, or at all.
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Southern Idaho is kind of a banana belt in the NW. We have fairly long growing seasons and usually don't get a serious frost until late Sept. Many years we can get 4 cuttings of alfalfa. I'd guess that AK and CO are too cold for it to grow well, or at all. It would probably do okay in SE Colorado, but unless it is irrigated, it might not survive. Eastern Colorado beef growers usually plant Hay Grazer or one of the other sorghum type forages. Only one cutting, but in a good year with moisture, it will get -67 feet tall. Several years ago Chaff hay was suppose to be the big up and coming thing. Supposedly to take the place of weed free certified hay , but in a bag. It was hay that they let semi ferment and then infuse with some kind of gas to stop it. It looked like tobacco and smelled about the same.Our mules took one whiff of it and said where the hell is the good stuff.Would not touch it
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After feeding a ton of Teff to my llamas, I think it's pretty good stuff but I don't know how many farmers will bother with an annual. Plowing it down every year does help keep the weeds down, though.
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Teff is of African origin. It does not stand being frozen. It is very popular with metabolic problems both real and imagined in the pet horse industry.
It's nice grass hay IMO. Fed a bunch of it and tried to plant it...........it froze out.
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I live in the Twin Falls area and the seasons here are long enough for it. It should do well in the Boise valley...if you can find land without pavement to grow it on. When I bought some last fall, the prices were the same as most other grass hays.
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Never heard of it. Googling it,it says it is a warm weather forage .Probably why we haven't had any around here in Colorado Same Same here too
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