Bamboo as ORGANIC feedstock for cattle?

Post by ShmuBamboo » Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:51 am

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When I was living on my ex's sheep ranch, the sheep would get into my one acre cultivated area now and then (they would press on the gate and sometimes it would give way). Once inside they had a choice of 11 types of cane berry vines, a dozen or so roses, and a long 50' by 8' row of Phy. aurea. All choice edibles for a ruminant animal. The sheep always went straight for the bamboo, and gave it a 4 foot high 'sheep haircut' eating all the lower leaves. The goats were worse, and they would knock the culms down and eat all the leaves they could get to standing on 2 feet as well as whatever they could knock down. They gave it a 6 foot 'goat haircut' and left bent and broken culms.

I feed any fresh cut boo culms to the goats and pony across the road from me and they pick them clean very fast. Then I go collect the cleaned culms the next day (not a single leaf is left!) and use them as poles and whatnot. When there are cattle in the next pasture over I toss them a few and they also like to eat the bamboo leaves. So in my experience sheep, goats, cattle and horses all like fresh green bamboo leaves. I do not know about drying them though. My guess is that you would have to dry them rather fast after cutting, like hay, and then bail it.

Oddly deer do not eat any of my bamboos. Which is the main reason that I grow it. They come here and eat just about everything else, but the bamboo remains completely untouched.

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