"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

Samcowman

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Looks like everyone has got there rotations started. Let mine loose yesterday when I say let loose I opened the gate from the training field and left them to it as the arses wouldn’t come to the call or be forced This morning they had gone through the first cross fence but thankfully in the right alley.
On goes my main battery which was charging over night and lean over the fence to turn it on and it knocked me on my ass, much better now!!!!
So in short they needed more training time and closer supervision but ground conditions in the training field weren’t up to it. Now they are on a 2 day paddock to save moving on a Tb test day tomorrow.
 

Crofter64

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Quebec, Canada
Looks like everyone has got there rotations started. Let mine loose yesterday when I say let loose I opened the gate from the training field and left them to it as the arses wouldn’t come to the call or be forced This morning they had gone through the first cross fence but thankfully in the right alley.
On goes my main battery which was charging over night and lean over the fence to turn it on and it knocked me on my ass, much better now!!!!
So in short they needed more training time and closer supervision but ground conditions in the training field weren’t up to it. Now they are on a 2 day paddock to save moving on a Tb test day tomorrow.
Hope all goes smoothly tomorrow.
 

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Baffles is a good idea, thanks. (y)

Why not just have a drain plug at the bottom & empty it when you move ?
It's not like it's a huge amount of water you're losing & it would certainly make it easier to tow . . .
That's generally what people do here with mobile troughs - let's you clean out any grass or other debris from the trough as well
 

holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer
Why not just have a drain plug at the bottom & empty it when you move ?
It's not like it's a huge amount of water you're losing & it would certainly make it easier to tow . . .
That's generally what people do here with mobile troughs - let's you clean out any grass or other debris from the trough as well
Good point, especially if I only run it half full (see above). I might add a stop tap at the trough to make that even easier.
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
This is the plan for this year:

Red lines are semi-permanent lane wires and yellow ones are where I aim to divide into cells. The water trough connecting points are the blue stars. The set stocked field is because it is owned by our neighbours who don't want it growing too long and spoiling their view.

The cells are absed on an average size of 0.494 acres (or 2000M2 for you metric folks :rolleyes:).

I'm already noticing plant species in the meadows that I haven't seen in there before.

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Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
This is the plan for this year:

Red lines are semi-permanent lane wires and yellow ones are where I aim to divide into cells. The water trough connecting points are the blue stars. The set stocked field is because it is owned by our neighbours who don't want it growing too long and spoiling their view.

The cells are absed on an average size of 0.494 acres (or 2000M2 for you metric folks :rolleyes:).

I'm already noticing plant species in the meadows that I haven't seen in there before.

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now that makes it more easy to see how it could be done with silly shaped fields (y)
what did you use to draw it with ?
only thing I would have done is made the semi permanent fence yellow as you have the outside of the fields because it stands out better and the sub dividers red, but that may just be my eyes:unsure:
 

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
This is the plan for this year:

Red lines are semi-permanent lane wires and yellow ones are where I aim to divide into cells. The water trough connecting points are the blue stars. The set stocked field is because it is owned by our neighbours who don't want it growing too long and spoiling their view.

The cells are absed on an average size of 0.494 acres (or 2000M2 for you metric folks :rolleyes:).

I'm already noticing plant species in the meadows that I haven't seen in there before.

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Cracker (y) How many cows? My memory is not playing the game tonight :rolleyes:
 

Poorbuthappy

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
This is the plan for this year:

Red lines are semi-permanent lane wires and yellow ones are where I aim to divide into cells. The water trough connecting points are the blue stars. The set stocked field is because it is owned by our neighbours who don't want it growing too long and spoiling their view.

The cells are absed on an average size of 0.494 acres (or 2000M2 for you metric folks :rolleyes:).

I'm already noticing plant species in the meadows that I haven't seen in there before.

View attachment 788374
Daily moves or more often?
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
now that makes it more easy to see how it could be done with silly shaped fields (y)
what did you use to draw it with ?
only thing I would have done is made the semi permanent fence yellow as you have the outside of the fields because it stands out better and the sub dividers red, but that may just be my eyes:unsure:
Silly shaped fields! How very dare you :D:p

Thanks. (y):D

Screen grab from Google maps (with the scale bar) using Microsoft Snipping Tool (comes with Windows 10) then loaded into MS Paint to add the lines and text.
 
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Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
35 5-600kg cows plus their young calves (& the bull next month).

Aiming for 40M wide lanes and 50M cross wires to give 2000M2. If I need to REALLY slow down later in summer I'll reduce the cross wires to 40M as well.
Sweet, having a regular 60 to 70 paddocks will serve you pretty well. If you can speed them up over spring to avoid stressing your grass too much then that will serve you well, too.

Curious as to what "new" species you're seeing in your pasture?
 
Could you have some form of bungyied cover that you pull on pre move and then remove after?

still doing rotation - have started doing back fencing and the lmabs are all getting their earings tomorrow..and first weigh..
the new mineral bar is being put out soon (as soonh as ive recieved the sulphur) till then they are on the premix...
doing lots of pasture walks working out what to do as ive got alot of clover showing where previously there was none... and i honestly dont know how to run clover - so one field is getting a skim graze and the other is being skipped first time round.
and finally put pen to paper on my paddock plan .. so should be done tonight with that...
 

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