Feedstuff Discovery - Kentucky Bluegrass

Kentucky Bluegrass

• High quality, highly palatable, cool season perennial grass with rhizomes that produce a dense sode.
• Can grow to heights of 1 to 3 feet in seed head stage.
• Can withstand close, heavy grazing better than most other grasses.
• Very sensitive to heat and summer drought (becomes dormant and brown during hot, dry summers).
• Not widely used as a hay grass because of its low yield, and if mixed with other grasses and legumes it matures before other plants are ready to cut.
• Annual yield = 1-3 tons DM/acre

Average Nutrient Content

• Ruminant TDN = 60-75%
• Crude Protein = 12-17%

Physical Description - leaves are dark green color, narrow and fine bladed with tips shaped like a boats bow; no auricles and low ligule; seed heads smaller than those for fall fescue.