Seeding Grasses

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Have had these below pop up in the veggie patch, and just wanted to make sure they're good value for the Gouldians .....
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all good...my birds love them.. :thumbup:
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Cheers thanks for that .... I take it the bottom one is some sort of millett spray ..... at least it looks like it, can anyone ID these by name?
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Definitely a millet. Hard to tell from a small blurry pic, but I'd hesitate a guess at Japanese Millet... maybe?
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1. A type of umbrella or windmill grass

2. Barnyard grass

3. ?? could be a Foxtail ( Setaria italica ) / Panorama / Red Pannicum - are all similar looking types of millet
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Bottom one is Red Pannicum.
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Thanks guys much appreciated :D
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The top one is summer grass (digitaria sp) which is a non native. Second one is barnyard grass (echinochloa sp) also non native. My birds aren't too impressed with barnyard grass but love summer grass and red pan at those stages.
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wait until its half ripe and they will eat /enjoy it.
when you pick the barnyard grass it will tend to drop some seed as you do....that's when they will enjoy it most.
the barnyard grass in particular wont be consumed green(premature) or the red millet.
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I've given all three to my gouldians, they've gone for it all, quite happy about that ☺

Thanks for all the replies with grass types especially ☺
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