Foxtail -- duck food??

[pondman]

I planted a hole with barnyard grass earlier this year and the barnyard grass did OK. Not that I can do anything about it now, but I had a lot of what I think is foxtail come up around the margins of the hole and a few spots out in the hole. The seed looks very similar to millet. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with it in a duck hole and if so, did the ducks feed on it? Like I said there's no much I can do about it now, but I'm just curious.

Thanks,

Pondman

[msoutdoors]

Yes, they'll eat it. When water gets into the margins of our cotton fields, they get after the foxtail.

[riverat]

i know doves will eat it more than brown top. i know ducks will eat it but the problem is it not as visible to them as japanese millet or milo.l

[Southernduckn]

Seteria species are very good bird food...

Waterfowl, quail, dove, dickie birds, and even mamals will munch on foxtail, more or less depending on the species. If you have a mix of panic grasses, millet, and foxtail, you have a diverse and very sustained food source over the winter...

[Warren]

I am in wildlife at mississippi state and yes Seteria species are good. We have some around a pond and the ducks take it down.