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switchgrass and horses

To: forage-mg@oes.orst.edu, graze-l@taranaki.ac.nz
Subject: switchgrass and horses
From: "Jim Green" <JGREEN@cropserv1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 15:26:44 EST5EDT
Posted-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 15:26:44 EST5EDT
Priority: normal

I am trying to find information about the use of the following 
perennial warm season grass species as feed for  horses.

1.   switchgrass (panicum virgatum)

2.  eastern gamagrass (tripsacum dactyloides)

3. caucasian bluestem ( bothriochloa caucasica)

i have heard that horses eat switchgrass hay very well, but they do 
not want to graze it.

i have not heard any reports about the other species.

thanks in advance
James T. Green, Jr
Professor & Extension Specialist
Pastures & Forage Crops
Crop Science Department
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
Phone:  919 515 2390
Fax:    919 515 5855

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