butter cups

stew · Post by **stew** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:38 am

i have a two acre field with alot of butter cups in the grass
is it safe to put two of my boys on

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:38 am

Well, we graze all our animals (we don't have equines) on buttercup-filled fields at one time or another.

oliver1921 · Post by **oliver1921** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:35 am

We do not seem to get much choice about feeding on buttercups! we do find that they tend to leave the long stringy ones though and we tend to top the field after the cattle have finished feeding to try to get a new start for fresh growth.

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:49 am

Yes, oliver1921, I should have mentioned we do top to keep the fields tidy.

Rob R · Post by **Rob R** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:48 pm

Buttercups in abundance here, but they loose their competitive advantage with continued intensive rotational grazing (the cows don't leave many). Ideally they want an earlier Spring grazing round to knock them back, but it didn't happen this year.