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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnGalway" data-source="post: 7270202" data-attributes="member: 204"><p>In the beginning, think what would your animal eat in a day. Take say 4 temp posts out with you and make a square or rectangle of x meters by x meters. Do you figure that would be enough forage for that animal for one day. Remember also in that area to leave 50% behind or whatever figure you want to work off. You might get away with doing it once per field if paddocks are very, very uniform, but I think it's better to test multiple areas.</p><p></p><p>Once you know a square meter area that will satisfy the nutritional need of your animal plus what you want to leave, you can measure the entire area of that field/paddock and divide the paddock sq meter area by your animal day area square meter, now you have a rough guesstimate of how many animal days are in that paddock, or more simply how many animals can I put in this paddock for one day.</p><p></p><p>Do that for the farm.</p><p></p><p>Next step is refining this eyeball method, that means monitoring your guesstimate. After day 1 are your stock hungry, have they grazed harder than you wanted, have they left more than you wanted and monitor and refine as you go. In Winter or a wet Summer stock might dirty grass faster than in drier conditions so there are a few little surprises like that knocking around too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnGalway, post: 7270202, member: 204"] In the beginning, think what would your animal eat in a day. Take say 4 temp posts out with you and make a square or rectangle of x meters by x meters. Do you figure that would be enough forage for that animal for one day. Remember also in that area to leave 50% behind or whatever figure you want to work off. You might get away with doing it once per field if paddocks are very, very uniform, but I think it's better to test multiple areas. Once you know a square meter area that will satisfy the nutritional need of your animal plus what you want to leave, you can measure the entire area of that field/paddock and divide the paddock sq meter area by your animal day area square meter, now you have a rough guesstimate of how many animal days are in that paddock, or more simply how many animals can I put in this paddock for one day. Do that for the farm. Next step is refining this eyeball method, that means monitoring your guesstimate. After day 1 are your stock hungry, have they grazed harder than you wanted, have they left more than you wanted and monitor and refine as you go. In Winter or a wet Summer stock might dirty grass faster than in drier conditions so there are a few little surprises like that knocking around too. [/QUOTE]
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