Classification and cultivation of Edible Grass for cattle, Sheep, Pig, Rabbit and Goose

1. It is recommended to feed cattle: Mexican corn, alfalfa, tall fescue, pennisetum, Sudan grass, etc., should not be planted with succulent leaf forage with high crude fiber content. Mexican corn is suitable for planting in areas with annual rainfall of more than 800 mm and frost-free period of more than 180 days, and can be cut once a month when the plant height is 1.5 meters. Forage dry matter contains 9.5% crude protein, 2.6% crude fat and 27.3% crude fiber. The stems and leaves are crisp, tender and juicy, sweet and palatable, and are also suitable for silage or drying hay.

2. Recommended feeding sheep: you can choose alfalfa, forage corn, grain amaranth, clover, winter mu 70 ryegrass and so on. The perennial legume alfalfa is the first choice for raising sheep in withered period, which likes semi-arid climate and strong drought resistance, so it is suitable for raising goats in mountainous areas. Alfalfa is rich in protein, vitamins and inorganic salts. Usually, 5 kilograms of fresh grass can be baked into 1 kilogram of hay. It is also suitable to beat alfalfa powder to make pellet feed or prepare full-price feed. It should be noted that sheep are resistant to rough feeding and should be fed with coarse fodder with high crude fiber content such as corn straw.

3. It is recommended to feed pigs: Rumex, pine vanilla, polymeric grass, grain amaranth, bitter cabbage, purple yunying, sweet clover and so on are suitable for feeding pigs. Rumex and Pinus elliottii are perennial herbs with strong adaptability to planting areas and are suitable for monogastric animals such as pigs. When the plant grows to 70 centimeters and 90 centimeters high, it can be harvested 3 to 4 times a year, the whole leaf can be fed to pigs, or it can be cut into small segments of 2 to 3 centimeters, and it can be mixed with corn straw according to the ratio of 3 ∶ 1 to achieve complementary nutritional advantages, but no matter which kind of feeding method, the amount of feeding should not be too much, so as not to affect the intake of concentrate feed.

4. It is recommended to feed rabbits: chicory, Italian ryegrass, bitter cabbage, sweet clover, alfalfa king, pennisetum, etc., especially chicory. Chicory is a perennial herb of Compositae, which is cold-resistant and heat-resistant, and has lax requirements on soil. It can be used continuously for more than 10 years after one sowing. Cut when the plant height is 50 cm, cut once every 30 days, the fresh grass can be produced more than 150000 kg per hectare, the palatability is excellent, it can better satisfy the rabbit's habit of eating fresh grass, and can be mixed with sweet clover, alfalfa powder, etc., the amount of forage grass should account for 50% of the total feed.

5. It is recommended to feed geese: geese are resistant to rough feeding, and the forage grasses suitable for feeding are Russian forage vegetables (aggregate grass), pine vanilla, seed amaranth, tall fescue, chicory and so on. Russian cuisine is a kind of perennial Polygonaceae forage which is cold-resistant and high-temperature resistant in recent years. It can be planted in barren hills, idle plots and riverside, and can be interplanted with fruit trees and economic forests. The northern region can be mowed 4 times in spring, summer and autumn, and the southern region can cut 5 times a year. The yield is 900 to 1500 tons per hectare, and the yield per 667 square meters can meet the needs of one young feed for 130 geese. When feeding, it can be reasonably matched with the forage of other families and genera mentioned above, and the effect of mixed feed is better.