Joe
Member
- Location
- Carlow Ireland
Anyone have much experience grazing red clover with lambs, and do and don’t to look out for? Have 8 acres here and fit to mow again and thinking might graze it as dont need the bales, so thinking of grazing
Grazing Red Clover
- Thread starter Joe
- Start date
Best grazing you can get imo, had 8 acres one year and we finished 100’s of lambs on it, would take 50 to market and replace them with and 50 every week. Never had any problems on it.
- Location
- Essex
Did you graze the whole lot or paddock graze?
Just turned them
Into the lot.
- Location
- Ceredigion
As post 2
Better still if it has some chicory in it
Better still if it has some chicory in it
davidroberts30
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
crack on! just don't let them graze it too hard and damage the crown of the clover
sticky
Member
- Location
- Near Stratford upon Avon
I had a look a my 8 acres this morning and it’s way passed it’s best because I haven’t been able to travel on the ground and so I’m just going to open the gate and let the store lambs in.
- Location
- West Somerset
Just think of all that nitrogen that's been fixed!!
Let mine do that after 1st cut,
still came back at 18% protein!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I went to open the gate to mine about 10 days ago. It wasn't quite as far on as that (but was flowering) and was well above my knee. I bottled it, fetched the mower and had another 5 bales/ac of rocket fuel.
I did graze it last year, when it was as far on as yours. They tried a good bit down, but still did the lambs well when we had little else.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Turned lambs into the second field of red clover yesterday, DD'ed in early June with plantain, ryegrass and a bit of rape as a nurse.
Gone mad the last week or so, as has the fat hen...
Another field the same was grazed a fortnight ago, then cleaned up with a topper at 8". Coming back strong already.
Gone mad the last week or so, as has the fat hen...
Another field the same was grazed a fortnight ago, then cleaned up with a topper at 8". Coming back strong already.
sticky
Member
- Location
- Near Stratford upon Avon
I want it down asap so I can have some regrowth to graze again
- Location
- somerset
sons been looking at the all legume option, cut only after sept, been told the protein level doesn't drop much.Just think of all that nitrogen that's been fixed!!
Let mine do that after 1st cut,
still came back at 18% protein!
- Location
- Radnorshire
Best if you could split field in 2 with electric fence , then field will be grazed better. Don’t go to low as said above as you don’t want to damage crown. Also comes back quicker. Our reseed this year was quite weedy so mowed after grazing, wonderful how it’s grown back.
- Location
- West Somerset
Interesting to know, everydays a school day.sons been looking at the all legume option, cut only after sept, been told the protein level doesn't drop much.
- Location
- somerset
gone from a 'no sub' point of view, to a 'might not be so bad' point of view, on these 'subs'.Interesting to know, everydays a school day.
the guv brings them in, and some of the new ones, are not so stupid, there are ways to include some sensibly, whether that is the guv's aim, is a completely different thing.
we are quick to 'write off' a lot of the 'options', but some have proved to be quite sensible, NVZ when it came in, classic example, cut N use, still here, and saved money !
- Location
- Mid Wales
I cut this yesterday for baling tommorow. What sort of feed value would this have. Won’t be the driest due to the current weather window
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