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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 6316364" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>I think with a sheep only system, internal parasites are always cause for concern.</p><p>Unless you have put a lot of emphasis on selection for resilient sheep, of course, in which case the "torture test" is going to show who can hack it!</p><p>How soon do you wean?</p><p></p><p>It can be a handy thing to do, by putting the lambs on clean pasture and then grazing it lower with the ewes you can minimise their burden.</p><p>Maintaining decent "skylines" during early summer can also attract an awful lot of spiders and birds which will all do their part in perdating larvae as they begin to move up the leaf, but one minor tweak can make a large difference in a worming programme: timing!!</p><p></p><p>So many farmers save up dosing for "a rainy day job" and unwittingly turn out their freshly wormed sheep onto damp pasture where the earthworms are at the surface also - so if possible then clean them up in the dry when the earthworms are deeper as this will minimise any problems from the drench (other than costing a few bob and removing selection pressure from replacements).</p><p></p><p>Re the grazing you could possibly plan your lamb round ahead of weaning/ during lambing in order to get them away on clean pasture, I'd consider mowing a block to provide this if management was difficult; perhaps a quarter per year would suffice?</p><p></p><p>My annual grasses here tend to boot early with a long period of heading, in a dry summer they can be in that state for months and so I tend to keep at them, and rest them later in the season to allow the later seeds to fall. I have other pasture types in other areas which stay leafier and I can graze these differently in terms of recovery time and pressure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 6316364, member: 63856"] I think with a sheep only system, internal parasites are always cause for concern. Unless you have put a lot of emphasis on selection for resilient sheep, of course, in which case the "torture test" is going to show who can hack it! How soon do you wean? It can be a handy thing to do, by putting the lambs on clean pasture and then grazing it lower with the ewes you can minimise their burden. Maintaining decent "skylines" during early summer can also attract an awful lot of spiders and birds which will all do their part in perdating larvae as they begin to move up the leaf, but one minor tweak can make a large difference in a worming programme: timing!! So many farmers save up dosing for "a rainy day job" and unwittingly turn out their freshly wormed sheep onto damp pasture where the earthworms are at the surface also - so if possible then clean them up in the dry when the earthworms are deeper as this will minimise any problems from the drench (other than costing a few bob and removing selection pressure from replacements). Re the grazing you could possibly plan your lamb round ahead of weaning/ during lambing in order to get them away on clean pasture, I'd consider mowing a block to provide this if management was difficult; perhaps a quarter per year would suffice? My annual grasses here tend to boot early with a long period of heading, in a dry summer they can be in that state for months and so I tend to keep at them, and rest them later in the season to allow the later seeds to fall. I have other pasture types in other areas which stay leafier and I can graze these differently in terms of recovery time and pressure. [/QUOTE]
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