Horse safe pasture treatments
Posted by jillbilly at 2009-06-22 12:04:16
Is there a period one should wait before placing stock back on grass pastures after fertilizer and herbicide treatments?
Response by Jonathan Lawton at 2009-06-23 01:53:02
10 days is the recommendation that I have been given.
Response by Vince Mautino at 2009-06-23 09:28:09
When I checked for Round -up,they told me 6 weeks.I met a fellow who sprays for the county and does custom from spraying.He told me with 24D there is no problem,but I usually wait a week or so.I'd sure check with the MFGR with anything you use. Almost all have a web site with contact info
Response by Ben at 2009-06-23 14:02:34
Think there may be differences depending on what you have put on the pasture. Have seen some literature saying two weeks, another says 30 days----depends.
Response by Don McAvoy at 2009-06-23 21:51:38
Read the label on the container. It will tell you when you can pasture or hay it. Depends on the chemical. If you use round up it kills all grasses, so nothing would be growing unless reseeded.
Response by hammerhead at 2009-06-23 22:32:49
Those waiting periods almost always refer to animals you are going to slaughter. I hope that's not your horses. I put my horses and mules on pasture the next day, after 24D, Cimmaron, Range Star, Roundup, Weedmaster, Ally.
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Response by Dale Wagner at 2009-06-24 11:03:00
You can't get a kill on canadain thistle with stock in the pasture. Get a little wilt and the spines soften up and it gets eaten. Course these old desert cows eat it into the ground so you can't find it to spray.
Response by cooley at 2009-06-24 23:58:56
i spray graze-on and 24d and my horses and mules actually follow my tractor while i spray. i asked about that at feed store and was told there is some salt in the spray that attracts the animals. never had a problem. knock on wood.
Response by Dave Schulz at 2009-06-27 11:41:08
I am always worried to put animals on areas that I have sprayed because when the weeds like houndstongue are dying the sugars leave the roots and end up in the leaves and make the plant taste better. The stock might eat stuff that they would normally never touch.
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