Depends to an extent when you'll need to graze it again, and with what?Planning on mob grazing this herbal ley with pre-bulling heifers to get them to bulling weight, probably one-day breaks due to labour, any tips?
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I should qualify that statement by saying I've not really grazed much of that type of crop at all, but when I did I looked at it as "a crop" and then looked at "harvesting it"Depends to an extent when you'll need to graze it again, and with what?
Unless there's a good reason to leave a bit, don't.
On that type of forage, first grazing at this stage looks to have virtually no yellowness at the base yet - from what I can see in the photo? So put everything green into the cattle, and hold them there as long as you can, aiming to leave it alone for as long as possible - I'm assuming it's quite dry there at the moment
Nice bunch of cattle enjoying the chicory.Back in where we had the big cover about 65 days. Using R1s this time, maybe a bit too tight starting off?
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Thanks KP, no rush to get around again this season, winter approaching so moisture will surely come in Oct.I should qualify that statement by saying I've not really grazed much of that type of crop at all, but when I did I looked at it as "a crop" and then looked at "harvesting it"
it helped me see what I did wrong with grass, in a lot of respects, ie "expecting recovery" when there is more to be gained IME by planning the recovery and then grazing in a way that gets us that recovery
hence why I asked what people do when they notice it getting dry, ie plan more recovery or 'hope for it'
If your cattle cannot put on 1 kilo per day on that feed, then it's not the feed at fault, but the cattle.Thanks KP, no rush to get around again this season, winter approaching so moisture will surely come in Oct.
Main objectives are
1. Good growth rates (happy to supplement with concentrate, need over 1kg per day to get there in time for AI block.
2. Feed the soil, it's a v. Dry gravelly hill, so I want to put some humus down. Got plenty of silage this year so happy to trample a bit in.
Will I be able to achieve both? Is 1 day breaks the right way to go?
Very new to grazing long covers, never used dry stock and I know with milking stock milk seems to go back...
I recognise that field from a map you posted earlier on in the year - how did you end up subdividing it?30 days recovery here. Will get another good grazing out of it. This grazing will make it over 1000 animal days/hectare so far this summer.
Liars of house martins over them this morning fattening themselves up.
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Yeah, absolutely!do you mean, it's easy to fall back into old habits ?