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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Garrett" data-source="post: 6965463" data-attributes="member: 144195"><p>Just thinking out loud. Would a modified strip grazing system work better in your environment? Instead of dividing enclosures into cells and trying to move ewes/lambs into a new cell, have a "feed fence" to move forward x meters/day to allocate fresh grass then move a back fence x meters/day to get some stock density. The only time ewes/lambs need to go through a gate would be to change enclosures, also reduces number of tread ins required? Not as good stock density as cell grazing but still gives more control than set stocking. The amount of work/thought you have put into to the job so far, it would be a shame to change stock type too soon (do like the moo cow idea though!). </p><p></p><p>Know what you mean about moving ewes/lambs, why do 95% of lambs follow the ewes through a gate leaving remaining 5% of lambs to either run in the opposite direction or play vertical trampolining off the stocknet just 2 meters up from the open gate! and why do 20% of the ewes want to run back to find those remaining 5% of lambs!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rob Garrett, post: 6965463, member: 144195"] Just thinking out loud. Would a modified strip grazing system work better in your environment? Instead of dividing enclosures into cells and trying to move ewes/lambs into a new cell, have a "feed fence" to move forward x meters/day to allocate fresh grass then move a back fence x meters/day to get some stock density. The only time ewes/lambs need to go through a gate would be to change enclosures, also reduces number of tread ins required? Not as good stock density as cell grazing but still gives more control than set stocking. The amount of work/thought you have put into to the job so far, it would be a shame to change stock type too soon (do like the moo cow idea though!). Know what you mean about moving ewes/lambs, why do 95% of lambs follow the ewes through a gate leaving remaining 5% of lambs to either run in the opposite direction or play vertical trampolining off the stocknet just 2 meters up from the open gate! and why do 20% of the ewes want to run back to find those remaining 5% of lambs! [/QUOTE]
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