Nick Adams
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- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
That's our eventual goal, hence mob consolidation was our first focus, it saves both time and grass.
As of half an hour ago, we are now down to two herds:
One with the calves, steers, heifers and a bull (plan to calve mid October, when the beef calves are being born out of dairy herds, as we plan to foster an extra calf on to each heifer)
One with all the sheep, lambs and bulls together to provide a decent "knockdown and trample"
Pasture growth is currently allowing us to maintain a leader-follower system, which is slightly counterproductive as it reduces recovery time, that is up for re-evaluation depending on rainfall and regrowth going forward.
(At present we are still feeding about .9ha per day, or thereabouts; so we'd be going around in 44 days for a 41 day recovery, with 3 mobs it would be a 38 day recovery on the same feed allocation... it's helped to tighten them up).[/QUOT
Not sure about your plan to foster calves? Good in theory. Nightmare in practice.