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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7464750" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>It will.be a great start.</p><p>Rest between grazings depends greatly on the time of year, we aim for about 22 days right out to 220 days depending on how it's growing, and how it was grazed last time.</p><p></p><p>The lower you graze, the longer you can afford to give it before you'll have to graze it again; this concept is useful after the pasture has done its dash. </p><p>The flipside is, in the spring period, low grazing and longer recovery means a drop in pasture quality which will impact animal performance.. this is why we have a grazing chart to plan what length of recovery each pasture gets, and this dictates how much we take off per grazing pass</p><p></p><p>It also depends on your own goals to a large extent, here we're mainly grazing to improve the land we farm on and we were just grazing too many times in a year.</p><p>.. when I say "animal performance" that encompasses much more than daily weight gains but the whole deal - reducing the need to drench and dose and handle stock, to feed supplement, topping baling and all the rest of the fun jobs.</p><p></p><p>Overgrazing is very easy when the grass is growing fast, especially with sheep, as the plants begin to regrow in 'hours' they will bite the regrowth off if left there for 'days'</p><p></p><p>as [USER=42914]@holwellcourtfarm[/USER] alluded to overgrazing doesn't necessarily get noticed or bother many farmers to the extent it bothers us, because they may only want to run more stock per acre or something simple.. we want the whole lot, so have a lot of paddocks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7464750, member: 63856"] It will.be a great start. Rest between grazings depends greatly on the time of year, we aim for about 22 days right out to 220 days depending on how it's growing, and how it was grazed last time. The lower you graze, the longer you can afford to give it before you'll have to graze it again; this concept is useful after the pasture has done its dash. The flipside is, in the spring period, low grazing and longer recovery means a drop in pasture quality which will impact animal performance.. this is why we have a grazing chart to plan what length of recovery each pasture gets, and this dictates how much we take off per grazing pass It also depends on your own goals to a large extent, here we're mainly grazing to improve the land we farm on and we were just grazing too many times in a year. .. when I say "animal performance" that encompasses much more than daily weight gains but the whole deal - reducing the need to drench and dose and handle stock, to feed supplement, topping baling and all the rest of the fun jobs. Overgrazing is very easy when the grass is growing fast, especially with sheep, as the plants begin to regrow in 'hours' they will bite the regrowth off if left there for 'days' as [USER=42914]@holwellcourtfarm[/USER] alluded to overgrazing doesn't necessarily get noticed or bother many farmers to the extent it bothers us, because they may only want to run more stock per acre or something simple.. we want the whole lot, so have a lot of paddocks. [/QUOTE]
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