brome grass seed feed value?

[jim]

Does anyone know if brome grass seed has any feed value for cattle or chickens?In the past it always seemed hard to control in my corn fields and totally takes over when I rotate back to alfalfa.Could i just let it get ripe and combined it like oats?Same question about quackgrass.Heck I don't have to do anything to grow this stuff and deisel fuel is over $4.00.

[Bearfootfarm]

I dont know about the brome seed but it makes great pasture or hay.
You'll have to find out from someone else on the quackgrass

[uncle Will in In.]

If you can combine it, you can make hay from it before it goes to seed. Even if the seed were any good for feed, the hay would make so much more feed there would be no comparison. You don't want to make grass hay after it has gone to seed. The livestock would have to be starved into eating it. Selling the seed would be much more profitable than feeding it, if it were of the right quality. You'd really have to fine tune your combine to run grass seed.