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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

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

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

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...

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.