Creating a livestock food garden.

Hey folks. I'd like to present some ideas to help feed our livestock such as chickens, goats, sheep and others. Here are my top crops to feed domestic creatures. 1.Old timey or Connecticut field pumpkin, 2. Broom corn or soghum, 3. Dent or gourdseed corn, 4. Mammoth sunflower, 5. Ameranth,  6. Buckwheat, 7. Millet, 8. Safflower, 9. Some gigantic root that's almost edible, but has a German name, and 10. Thistle. Hope this thing work. I'm looking for beans and more stuff to help feed livestock throughout the year, but also help wildlife in the short term. Please reach me for questions or feedback on how we make our livestock gardens great again. Take care.

9.  Mangels?  If so, a kind of sugar beet used in the UK a fair bit for live stock feed.  Or maybe a rutabaga?

I like bamboo and tree fodders.  They especially like mulberry, but all manner of fruit and nut tree trimmings can fed, just be sure they are not toxic.  The wilted leaves of stone fruits are usually regarded as toxic.

The perennial ones would be the best, as there would be little work year to year, other than harvesting. That looks like a pretty good list. How about adding Jerusalem artichokes? The top part of the plant is supposed to be good for animal feed... I'm not sure about the tubers. It is perennial and prolific in most places.

Perennial kale might be a good one to consider. Depending on your climate, that might include walking stick kale, which was used as cattle feed on the island where it was developed.

Is this garden to be a "forage" type garden or will it be harvested then given to the animals?

We do food plots for wildlife to forage.  Purple hull peas and turnips are some not on your list.

We grow comfrey, silver beet and sorrel to feed ourselves and our chickens. The comfrey leaves have so many other uses apart from livestock food - I dry the leaves to make a salve, compress them in a bucket to make liquid fertiliser, line the trench that potatoes are planted in with wilted leaves, the list goes on…

What about barley, oats, and stuff like that. Anybody grown a hay garden before for their livestock?