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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7266347" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>It's quite amazing what you get to see when you really want to see.</p><p>Looking is only part of the process of seeing.</p><p></p><p>One thing that I meant to capture but haven't yet is "the fenceline phenomenon" because in a lot of places we put the fence up in the exact same place each time and others we put in a slightly different place.</p><p>Where we put it up in the same place all the time, there's 'a gap in the grass" because nothing can pee or poo on it and nothing is really trampled in there, even if we wind the fence up there is not much cover to tramp down because they used to eat under the wires first.</p><p></p><p>Because we upped the density from (say) 8 tonnes of animal per hectare to 80, or 800, that "wasteage" increases - they all go and run around on it because it feels good to run around on - and so the grass there "looks" worse than what's under the fence.</p><p></p><p>But seldom do they eat that anymore so the trampled stuff must be better tasting stuff, they really show their favouritism at this time of year which surprised me as to my old mindset "it's losing quality, I must try to stop that happening" and bugger me if they don't want to eat what I used to try to grow for them <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷♂️" title="Man shrugging :man_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" /></p><p>Their idea of quality feed is the stuff that they are pushing over with their brisket, not the hoof-polish.</p><p></p><p>It's almost like they never read the instructions on how to be proper animals.</p><p></p><p>When you get a platemeter, the instructions say that if you want an accurate reading, discount all the poo patches and urine patches and around gateways where the grass is long. </p><p>That's fair enough but then when you see cattle doing a ram-raid on a new break, they're eating exactly the grass you wouldn't measure because it's bad grass for being big </p><p></p><p>Go figure why that is and I bet it is about spending money when you boil it down</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7266347, member: 63856"] It's quite amazing what you get to see when you really want to see. Looking is only part of the process of seeing. One thing that I meant to capture but haven't yet is "the fenceline phenomenon" because in a lot of places we put the fence up in the exact same place each time and others we put in a slightly different place. Where we put it up in the same place all the time, there's 'a gap in the grass" because nothing can pee or poo on it and nothing is really trampled in there, even if we wind the fence up there is not much cover to tramp down because they used to eat under the wires first. Because we upped the density from (say) 8 tonnes of animal per hectare to 80, or 800, that "wasteage" increases - they all go and run around on it because it feels good to run around on - and so the grass there "looks" worse than what's under the fence. But seldom do they eat that anymore so the trampled stuff must be better tasting stuff, they really show their favouritism at this time of year which surprised me as to my old mindset "it's losing quality, I must try to stop that happening" and bugger me if they don't want to eat what I used to try to grow for them 🤷♂️ Their idea of quality feed is the stuff that they are pushing over with their brisket, not the hoof-polish. It's almost like they never read the instructions on how to be proper animals. When you get a platemeter, the instructions say that if you want an accurate reading, discount all the poo patches and urine patches and around gateways where the grass is long. That's fair enough but then when you see cattle doing a ram-raid on a new break, they're eating exactly the grass you wouldn't measure because it's bad grass for being big Go figure why that is and I bet it is about spending money when you boil it down [/QUOTE]
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