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Wild Grass seed for chicken feed
The following is some recommended grasses to forage seed from. These are not all of them. It is good to know you can not make a mistake with any wild grass seed for chicken feed.
buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides)
hooded windmillgrass (Chloris cucullata)
tumble windmillgrass (Chloris verticillata)
inland saltgrass (Distichlis stricta)
beaked panicum (Panicum anceps)
vine-mesquite (Panicum obtusum)
switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Texas bluegrass (Poa arachnifera)
plains bristlegrass (Setaria macrostachya)
prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata)
meadow dropseed (Sporobolus asper var. hooker)
sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus)
Arizona cottontop (Trichachne californica)
purpletop (Tridens flavus)
slim tridens (Tridens muticus)
eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides)
Illinois Bundleflower, Desmanthus illinoinensis
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