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<blockquote data-quote="cows250" data-source="post: 4044444" data-attributes="member: 12460"><p>True mob stocking is far higher density than that....I haven't got there either, but 100,000 to 1 million pounds per acre, has been done (kg per ha is close enough to 1:1 at this point.) So, 1250 to 12,000 (80kg) sheep per hectare, and moving multiple times a day. I am using 57 goat wethers and 5 steers of varying ages, weighing ~6,300 pounds total and giving them .2 acres of new grass a day, so 31,500 lbs/acre stocking density. In a week I will be grazing 72,000 pounds of dairy cattle on .2 acre breaks overnight as a small part of their diet... 360,000 pounds/acre. Curious to see how the pasture responds to that.</p><p></p><p>How much fence are you willing to build? You have (at a guess) ~6,000 kg liveweight that need to eat 150 kg DM per day. If they eat about a third of what's there, that would be about 0.15 hectare of new grass per day</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cows250, post: 4044444, member: 12460"] True mob stocking is far higher density than that....I haven't got there either, but 100,000 to 1 million pounds per acre, has been done (kg per ha is close enough to 1:1 at this point.) So, 1250 to 12,000 (80kg) sheep per hectare, and moving multiple times a day. I am using 57 goat wethers and 5 steers of varying ages, weighing ~6,300 pounds total and giving them .2 acres of new grass a day, so 31,500 lbs/acre stocking density. In a week I will be grazing 72,000 pounds of dairy cattle on .2 acre breaks overnight as a small part of their diet... 360,000 pounds/acre. Curious to see how the pasture responds to that. How much fence are you willing to build? You have (at a guess) ~6,000 kg liveweight that need to eat 150 kg DM per day. If they eat about a third of what's there, that would be about 0.15 hectare of new grass per day [/QUOTE]
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