Does any of this look like Fescue?

[kimie28]

I have heard alot about the Fescue issue and not feeding it to mares late in gestation. I thought I never had to worry about it due to living in Florida. Well duh, all our hay comes from up north!! I have never seen Fescue grass or Fescue hay so I am asking for help. I have some mares in their late gestation and want to make sure there is no Fescue in their hay. Please let me know if you see ANY signs of it in their hay. I have read Donna's post and now very concerned! THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!

Here is 2 pictures of the first hay...

and 2 of the other hay...

 

[Lucky-C-Acres-Minis]

Check out this site:

Fescue

 

[frekles93]

[SIZE=14pt]I see clover and not sure what the one seed head is but it is NOT fescue.... I live in fescue country!!![/SIZE]

April

 

[kaykay]

those heads look like foxtail and that really cuts up the mouth of a horse if thats it. run your hand over it and you can feel how it sticks you.

 

[SWA]

It looks sort of like Timothy hay to me, the long narrow green heads, but I'm no expert.

: The other brownish pine cone looking ones, I don't know what that is.

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We do have fescue here in Florida though, that grows wild. I lost my very last foal to it 2 years ago, thankfully we've since moved from there. Again, I'm no expert, but that's what I was told by my neighbors from that area, that it was fescue growing in the pastures there, (Central Florida, Lake County). We now live not too far from there, about 15 minutes further north. So far I've not seen it here at our new home, but then, we don't have much of anything right now, with this drought.

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[kimie28]

[SIZE=14pt]I see clover and not sure what the one seed head is but it is NOT fescue.... I live in fescue country!!![/SIZE]

April

:bgrin THANK GOODNESS!!! :bgrin This makes me feel much better.

KayKay, I did run my hand over it and it didn't stick to me at all. It is actually really soft.

SWA, I'm sorry to hear about your lost from fescue actually growing here in Florida! I thought we could only get throught the hay but now I will look more carefully. I wonder though since I am in SW Florida if we are too far south for it to grow.

 

[MiniHoofBeats]

Wow after looking at what fescue is...I for some reason always thought that was called "wheat grass" because it looks like wheat heads!

 

[Jetiki]

Looks like timothy mixed with clover and maybe some alfalfa in there also. Just my opinion.

Karen

 

[Bluerocket]

I vote for Timothy + Red Clover (or purple) in the first picture -- then timothy in the 2nd hay one.

Maybe some alfalfa but not sure about that -- don't see anything else that I can identify from the pictures.

Timothy has that big seed head.

That is a GREAT website Lucky-C --- Purdue Forage.

JJay