This is only partly true. F.W. has already responded about using soy beans
for cattle. The raw beans can, however, be toxic to birds. Those that are
into pastured poultry on a large scale often grind/mix their own feed. Not
a few of them has made the mistake of using raw, as opposed to roasted,
beans with disastrous effects. This is usually in the form of dead or
greatly stunted birds.
Bill Wetherington
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon" <leon@wave.co.nz>
To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Graze-l] (no subject)
> 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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