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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnGalway" data-source="post: 6965349" data-attributes="member: 204"><p>That is an advantage sheep hold over cattle, they have less ability to completely thrash ground. I visited a farm about 45 minutes away last September I think. He keeps dexters, there were six cows, five calves, a bull and a bullock in what I can only describe as a bottomless wet type field. I was waiting to sink myself walking across it. It had been reclaimed from bog, and true enough there was bog each side and above it. I was looking out for damage and could see none of significance. There was a machine dug open drain which the little herd started to jump across. Not even the bull marked the land. I know it was September, but I was impressed. </p><p></p><p>Some of my land is very shallow, sfa over bedrock. I could bale graze cattle in Winter there. They'd only improve it tbh, given good recovery time. I cannot access all of this type land with bales, actually I'm looking at purchasing a capstan rope winch to roll bales up a hill to one place. It's the only access and will give the neighbours something to be scandalised about. I had my first taste of using round bales outdoors this Spring and I am happy to place bales out for a month at least, perhaps longer. This means no daily drag, slip, and slide. I kept the ewes topped up with Crystalyx, and while expensive, in terms of feeding my flock I put in two days of work from mid Feb until now. No hauling bags, no tipping water out of troughs, no getting horns in the back of the knee. I sure like way better. I can't imagine it would work worse with cattle. In fact I could see rolling out hay, which failed with the sheep, may work much better with cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnGalway, post: 6965349, member: 204"] That is an advantage sheep hold over cattle, they have less ability to completely thrash ground. I visited a farm about 45 minutes away last September I think. He keeps dexters, there were six cows, five calves, a bull and a bullock in what I can only describe as a bottomless wet type field. I was waiting to sink myself walking across it. It had been reclaimed from bog, and true enough there was bog each side and above it. I was looking out for damage and could see none of significance. There was a machine dug open drain which the little herd started to jump across. Not even the bull marked the land. I know it was September, but I was impressed. Some of my land is very shallow, sfa over bedrock. I could bale graze cattle in Winter there. They'd only improve it tbh, given good recovery time. I cannot access all of this type land with bales, actually I'm looking at purchasing a capstan rope winch to roll bales up a hill to one place. It's the only access and will give the neighbours something to be scandalised about. I had my first taste of using round bales outdoors this Spring and I am happy to place bales out for a month at least, perhaps longer. This means no daily drag, slip, and slide. I kept the ewes topped up with Crystalyx, and while expensive, in terms of feeding my flock I put in two days of work from mid Feb until now. No hauling bags, no tipping water out of troughs, no getting horns in the back of the knee. I sure like way better. I can't imagine it would work worse with cattle. In fact I could see rolling out hay, which failed with the sheep, may work much better with cattle. [/QUOTE]
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