Austrian winter peas for grazing

[sic 'em reds]

Anyone ever planted these to graze cattle on in the early to mid spring? We are looking for a crop to plant in some established irrigated pasture to get some early spring grazing.

Any help or suggestion would be appreciated.

 

[BlackCattleRancher]

I would use a mix of oat/peas. Peas will give the oats plenty of nitrogen. You will get significant more tonnage than with the austrian peas, especially if irrigated.

BCR

 

[Denny]

I had a 110 acres of them this summer(peas and oats) the neighbors cows ate every last bit of it.A week alone they really hammered my field what drought did'nt kill they ate.After the fall rains alot of it has regrown about 8" tall we have our heifer calves and young bulls out on it now.

 

[jigs]

denny, more info on how you managed that please! bloat? cows per acre? seeds per acre?

 

[Denny]

denny, more info on how you managed that please! bloat? cows per acre? seeds per acre?

Managed what the neighbors cows they walked 2 miles cross country to a remote field and spent a week pigging out.The peas and oats were very poor condition due to our drought otherwise I'm sure they would have died.

The heifers and young bulls got a gate open and let themselves out they have dry hay, pasture and 20 semi loads of wet cake at their pleasure right now.

the mixture was 70% peas 30% everleaf oats at 100#s per acre

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