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| My husband spread it on all the cattle and horse pastures. The horses are pulled up and will be until it rains good. But we had some friends of ours tell us it could be harmful to horses long term?
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Since he put out pure urea, just wait until it melts or a good rain comes. THen put the horses back on it. We use it all the time, or ammonia nitrate. |
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| 3canstorun - 2016-03-28 10:49 AM
Since he put out pure urea, just wait until it melts or a good rain comes. THen put the horses back on it. We use it all the time, or ammonia nitrate.
Thank you! Do you monitor intake when the weather gets around freezing? Due to the sugar content? |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Blueridgedreaming - 2016-03-28 11:54 AM 3canstorun - 2016-03-28 10:49 AM Since he put out pure urea, just wait until it melts or a good rain comes. THen put the horses back on it. We use it all the time, or ammonia nitrate. Thank you! Do you monitor intake when the weather gets around freezing? Due to the sugar content?
No, because we usually fertilize more then once. So one application is not going to last until fall for us. However, when it gets cold, the grass dies around here. |
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| You can easily ruin your pastures and hay meadows putting out straight nitrogen ... it is for fast growth and will thin your grass out ...
You have to feed your pastures ... use 27-27-27 or even triple 33 ... which gives you potash for root growth and phosphorous which is the life blood of a growing plant.
This is a must on sandy soil since it has no organic content to feed the grasses ..
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Location: SE Louisiana | BARRELHORSE USA - 2016-03-28 2:30 PM
You can easily ruin your pastures and hay meadows putting out straight nitrogen ... it is for fast growth and will thin your grass out ...
You have to feed your pastures ... use 27-27-27 or even triple 33 ... which gives you potash for root growth and phosphorous which is the life blood of a growing plant.
This is a must on sandy soil since it has no organic content to feed the grasses ..
This is what I was thinking. Something that high in nitrogen might burn the pasture. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | komet. - 2016-03-28 3:35 PM BARRELHORSE USA - 2016-03-28 2:30 PM You can easily ruin your pastures and hay meadows putting out straight nitrogen ... it is for fast growth and will thin your grass out ... You have to feed your pastures ... use 27-27-27 or even triple 33 ... which gives you potash for root growth and phosphorous which is the life blood of a growing plant. This is a must on sandy soil since it has no organic content to feed the grasses .. This is what I was thinking. Something that high in nitrogen might burn the pasture.
We have straight bermuda. Which can handle it. I don't know what type of grass she has. He also does a soil check for PH levels, etc. in different areas. We also lime according to needs. I am in SW GA, so my needs might be different from hers. |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | In Iowa we don't have to put as much P and K on because our organic matter is pretty good. You also have to remember that horses are not like cattle as in that you are taking body weight off of your pastures that your growing cattle are doing. If your horses are just maintaining their weight you are not taking a lot of nutrition off of the pasture. But most people still put on all three of the NPK. Dry Urea is also pretty volitile if not stablilized and you can lose a lot of it if it doesn't rain in a few days. Should spread just before a rain. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Soil testing before fertilizing is always the way to go. |
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| We are in NC and do not have sandy pastures at all. Mostly black dirt and some red clay.
The man leasing part of our land did a soil test and recommended the 46-0-0 but I honestly didn't find out what they put on this year until it was almost all put down. It did rain a steady rain that evening.
Still just concerned, thank you for the feedback! |
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