Be careful grazing soy beans if seed is formed
because the beans can be toxic unless heated.
Look up Soy on the net and see
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz which is
mainly about affecting humans and birds.
Vaughan Jones
>Hi Daniel,
>I could not find to much on grazing soybeans with lambs. From what I did
>find it can be done and the soybeans are a good feed but I think there are
>crops etter suited to be used as pasture such as rape-oats combinations.
>If you do graze soybeans and want regrowth of the plants you would need to
>be sure to pull the animals off before they eat all of the leaves off the
>plants. In this country at least, soybeans have never been used much for
>forage except in emergency situations because other crops lend them selves
>much better for this use. Good luck.
>Jim Ahrens
>West Branch, IA
>
>On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Daniel Formoso wrote:
>
>> Hi,folks!
>> First, excuse me my English. It is not my
>>mother language (I always say the same but I
>>don�t try to improve it!)...a little lazy, may
>>be...
>> Second, I�m searching for scientific
>>information (papers) about lambs grazing
>>soybean pasture.
>> Here in Uruguay (South America) we have many
>>farmers fattening lambs in different types of
>>pasture like white clover, ryegrass, etc.
>> But we need a good pasture for rearing lambs,
>>mainly in summer. We tested many pasture (rape,
>>Lucerne, etc) but we are lack of information of
>>that kind of forage.
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
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