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Outwintering cattle on herbal leys
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7196179" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>All an equation with time as a factor.</p><p>We had 80 weaner-size calves on a couple of hundred square metres, eg it was taking about 8 days to graze a hectare.</p><p>(If I just put them on that hectare they would have been moaning by the 4th day, I think when it got properly wet I was on about 50 shifts per hectare or thereabouts).</p><p>200m² -240m² at a time, or, basically just room to lie down... hence using smaller cattle as they seemed the best balance between ease of fencing and liveweight/hectare.[ATTACH=full]915645[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]915646[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]915647[/ATTACH]</p><p>I factored on about 1000m²/day for a start, the strongest cover we used maybe 840m² and the poorer parts 1300m². (1ha=10,000m²)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7196179, member: 63856"] All an equation with time as a factor. We had 80 weaner-size calves on a couple of hundred square metres, eg it was taking about 8 days to graze a hectare. (If I just put them on that hectare they would have been moaning by the 4th day, I think when it got properly wet I was on about 50 shifts per hectare or thereabouts). 200m² -240m² at a time, or, basically just room to lie down... hence using smaller cattle as they seemed the best balance between ease of fencing and liveweight/hectare.[ATTACH type="full" alt="20200802_153119.jpg"]915645[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="20200730_201240.jpg"]915646[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="20200704_113952.jpg"]915647[/ATTACH] I factored on about 1000m²/day for a start, the strongest cover we used maybe 840m² and the poorer parts 1300m². (1ha=10,000m²) [/QUOTE]
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