What would everyone recommend? I know alfalfa is high in protein, and some perrienial strains are good for 20+ years but.... what would you all recommend specifically for planting for rabbits, chickens and pot bellied pigs for grazing? There are berries and crabapples that I am going to leave but all the brushy trash wood is getting brush hogged in the morning...
Pasture for a SHTF situation for your animals to graze?
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As many varieties of anything that you can think of. Alfalfa, white and red clover, annual and perennial rye grass, forbes, timothy, birds foot treefoil instead of alfalfa if the ground is swampy, wheat, oats. Dandelions are good for pasture as well as some other weeds. If you plant a variety of cold and warm weather species, dry and wet, something will always be growing. Your pasture will look different every year depending upon the weather conditions.
just messin' with ya....let me know how they taste.. 
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Alfalfas, clover, timothy, grass, etc. Rabbits love fruit tree bark as well.
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Excellent response!animalfarm said:
I don't have enough ground to support much in the way of livestock, so I'd have to go with a few little goats.
While we're on this topic, I read that two acres could support one animal year round, but someone argued that you need 4 acres. I could see that for a cow, but would you need that much for a goat?
Oops, sorry for the thread hijack. Just asking...
terri9630
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That would depend on where you are. Around her you couldn't feed a cow on 10 acres. Where we used to live we had 4 horses a milk cows and a couple of calves on 15 acres and only fed hay during the summer when there hadn't been any rain.
