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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5121884" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>How are your sheep BCS wise?</p><p>Back fences and small blocks are about all you can do IME, you could perhaps begin splitting your paddocks in half (if they are the same size, of course) so you are on 14 day and once the cover builds a little subdivide further?</p><p></p><p>Looks a bit of a year to forget for sone of you, I would say throw some hay at them if you have it - but the short answer to me is give them something to fill the belly and small blocks until you can get some feed in front.</p><p></p><p>I am in a similar boat here as by the time the rains came it was too cold to do much, luckily I have a shed and lots of fencing</p><p></p><p>I am running some cattle in for a feed if silage just to pad out the grass a little - playing the waiting game really!!</p><p>But, say I cut a paddock into 5, that means the first break has had 4 days of recovery by the time they are on the last one, by the time you do that across 17 paddocks or whatever, that is a lot of extra grass that you don't grow with a cow per acre set stocked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5121884, member: 63856"] How are your sheep BCS wise? Back fences and small blocks are about all you can do IME, you could perhaps begin splitting your paddocks in half (if they are the same size, of course) so you are on 14 day and once the cover builds a little subdivide further? Looks a bit of a year to forget for sone of you, I would say throw some hay at them if you have it - but the short answer to me is give them something to fill the belly and small blocks until you can get some feed in front. I am in a similar boat here as by the time the rains came it was too cold to do much, luckily I have a shed and lots of fencing I am running some cattle in for a feed if silage just to pad out the grass a little - playing the waiting game really!! But, say I cut a paddock into 5, that means the first break has had 4 days of recovery by the time they are on the last one, by the time you do that across 17 paddocks or whatever, that is a lot of extra grass that you don't grow with a cow per acre set stocked. [/QUOTE]
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