When Feed Stores CLOSE: Sorghum
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- We would love to be self sufficient and create a pretty much closed system on our farm. We also want to be prepared for contingencies like when feed stores close. One way to continue feeding our animals is with easy to grow sorghum!
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You guys got it together ❤ 🙌 💪 Especially my papa! He really handles things! Nothing but love 💘 💕 my friends!
Ha! He is one of a kind! Working hard on our self sufficiency! One step at a time, right!?
@@CopperheadRoadHomestead yes indeed!
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You sure?
I love the little cut clips u put in this video
Ha! They made me laugh! I’ll do this when I can.
Easy feed! Congrats!
Oh yeah! Thanks, amigo!
Great job!
Thanks!
Looks like you guys got a good pile of it . Have you looked into growing sorghum-sudan grass . It gets really tall and you can get a few cuttings off it . It also grows really fast .
I have heard about it, but I haven't tried it. I would like to though. Have you tried it?
@@CopperheadRoadHomestead No I have never . I seen a lot of videos of people growing it .
would you please get out of my head?! 😀 I (like most I am sure) have been wondering/worrying about what if feed supply chain fails, how will I be able to feed my animals that will help to sustain my family and I? Love the punk style music! Thank you so much for this video!
Ha! I think that preppers need to be considering what they will feed their animals in case of disaster. Some don't think ahead for this!
We are planning to grow sorghum this year (Mennonite sorghum in particular) for exactly the reasons you gave! Nice to see this first hand though both in how it grows and in feeding it. The other part of it we have thought to try is saving the seed heads for chicken feed and possibly grinding but that is getting a bit ahead of ourselves.
We tried saving seed heads, but the birds might have beat us to them! We were just gonna save the seeds to grow some more next year.
Hello Daniel. Love how the family works together. Hope you and Ruia have a great day.
We are very blessed. I hope the kids treasure this...I am treasuring it!
Love to have a vid or the goat’s
Toggenburgs? I will do some research and do a video.
@@CopperheadRoadHomestead yes please
It's one thing preppers often forget until last minute, though I've spoken about it for years now. Thankfully, at least in spring-summer-fall, the chickens have access to good pasture grasses here now that we've cultivated and logged and changed the character of some of these mountain woods. This is a subject worth thinking about! ~Cynthia
Yes! First thing in a major disaster where feed wasn’t available (if it happened right now), we would be getting rid of half of our critters. Ultimately, we will be able to feed them all the time from our place. Thanks, Cynthia! I appreciate you!
I’ve heard the same thing your friend heard .... I looked it up and found this:
Forage sorghum, sudangrass, and sorghum-sudangrass hybrids (sudex) are exceptionally heat and drought tolerant annual crops that are used as cover crops, pasture, hay, and silage. Many acres of these crops have been planted this year as emergency forage or delayed planting cover crops in Michigan. However, care is needed when utilizing these forages for cattle, sheep and goats during frosty weather because of risks related to prussic acid poisoning.
All plants in the sorghum family can cause prussic acid poisoning in livestock. Forage sorghum has the greatest toxicity potential and sudangrass the least, with hybrid sudex intermediate. Prussic acid is also called hydrocyanic acid, otherwise known as cyanide. Poisoning occurs when enzymes naturally present in the plant tissue convert a secondary compound called dhurrin into toxic cyanide gas whenever the plant wilts. Therefore, producers grazing sorghum-family forages must be alert to any conditions that cause sudden wilting of the forage. Potentially dangerous wilting can be caused by frost, drought, cutting, chopping, trampling, or even just by chewing. Rumen bacteria can detoxify some prussic acid if animals are gradually introduced to
the forage and are not consuming prussic acid at a rate faster than it can be broken down. Death can still occur in livestock used to sorghum if prussic acid levels spike due to frost or if hungry animals eat a sudden large dose of toxic forage. Toxicity potential is greatest in seedlings, lush dark green new leaves, frosted forage, and drought-wilted forage. High levels of soil N fertility and low fertility of P and K can increase toxicity. Leaves contain more toxin than stems. Because of the concentration of cyanide in new leaves, sorghum forages should never be grazed or fed as green chop until plants are at least 18 to 24 inches tall. This is approximately belly high on a mature cow.
Prussic acid poisoning is a veterinary emergency. Signs can occur as soon as ten minutes after consuming a toxic dose. Cyanide interferes with the ability of blood to carry oxygen, causing animals to die of suffocation. Affected animals show labored breathing, excitement, gasping, convulsions, paralysis, staggering and death. Usually animals are simply found dead because progression is rapid and easily missed when animals are not under continuous observation.
The period of time between first light frost and killing frost is exceptionally dangerous because it is difficult to predict exactly how much cyanide may be present. Do not feed frosted sorghums as green chop. Do not graze sorghum-family forages or cover crop mixes containing them on nights when the first frost is expected. After the first frost, new shoots may sprout from partially frost-injured plants if there is a warm spell, and this new growth can be dangerously high in prussic acid. Therefore, the safest strategy is to keep livestock off pastures containing sorghums from the first light frost until the plants are completely dead and dry after a killing frost. Sorghum forage is usually safely dry within 5 to 7 days after a killing frost.
Frosted sorghum forages are usually safe to harvest as hay, silage, or baleage. Cyanide gas dissipates during the hay curing phase and during handling and feedout of silage. Sorghum and sudangrass hays are therefore safe to feed once bales are completely cured, which takes about three weeks. Silage and baleage are safe to feed after fermentation is complete, which takes about 6 to 8 weeks after ensiling. Cyanide gas is heavier than air and can accumulate in low, poorly ventilated areas. If storing sorghum silage in upright silos or bunkers, take the same precautions that apply to toxic silo gases for any crop. Ventilate the feed room and use caution if entering the silo.
Sorghum-family forages can be used safely if producers pay attention to reduce the risks.
For more information, contact Kim Cassida (Forage and Cover Crop Specialist, cassida@msu.edu), Phil Kaatz (Forage Educator, kaatz@msu.edu), or Kable Thurlow (Grazing Educator, thurlowk@msu.edu).
This article was published by Michigan State University Extension. For more information, visit extension.msu.edu. To have a digest of information delivered straight to your email inbox, visit extension.msu.edu/newsletters. To contact an expert in your area, visit extension.msu.edu/experts, or call 888-MSUE4MI (888-678-3464).
Wow. You did some research! I didn't know you went to Michigan State!?
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Hans is big and beautiful ! Please do a video about Toggenburg goats ! Love your Swedish accent . Lol
Stay happy, healthy, hydrated and safe.
May God continue to bless you and your family.
Ha! All of my foreign accents are the same. I’m not really well traveled. God bless you, my friend!
I would like to grow sorghum & make sorghum molasses!
Oh yeah...great on biscuits, right!?
We raised grain sorghum for a number of years for the grain. Unfortunately we keep having problems with the Japanese Sugar Cane Aphid, which eats the heart out of all the seed. Talk about low test weight and low nutritional value!
I hadn't heard of that! I didn't see too many bugs on ours, but who knows!? The critters seemed to love this...I will research it a little.