+14 Do Cows Eat Broom Corn Ideas. Goats will not eat the thick, woody blackberry. Plant matter such as leaves, grass, hay, and crop leftovers, like corn husks, make up 90% of ruminants’ diet.
As it turns out, broom corn has more decorative and industrial uses than for eating. In the fall when it was decided the first crop was ready to cut, the harvest began and ran until the last ricks (piles of harvested corn) were baled and sold to a local. Have watched cows eat many a whole ear of corn in the fields after harvest for years.
