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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7464800" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>We are all PP or "improved PP" here, it's a swings and roundabouts thing in all honesty. That's probably why people love the predictable nature of just growing one grass and one clover - with PP, your sheep will target one of the 10 grasses and skin out the clover under continuous grazing (as you see) and leave the rest.</p><p></p><p>For a start, you're going to have to roll with it, because you will end up with pee-poor-performance if you try to "make them eat 90%" of it, so it will be a gradual shift in sward compostion over a few years with compounding gains <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p><p></p><p>We're just in the throes of subdividing into a proper multipaddock system (80 paddocks per group, like a dairy farm would have) and this is based around my experience that our old grass which doesn't get any sugar added, likes about 40 days or so. </p><p>And not only that, the "land" as a whole likes about that with sheep and small cattle on it.</p><p></p><p>With 8 paddocks, that isn't really much of a stretch - you could give them 2-3 days in each ⅛th over the rapid growth period and then slow them down to 3-4, then 4-5 days... and then wean the lambs, and get the ewes to do your landscaping work.</p><p></p><p>You'd probably want to do a "total grazing" with the ewes before winter which will provide nice clean pasture for the next season, ie take all that you can take without them losing weight or teeth over it - again, this may be a crunch time for your ewes so don't jump them in the deep end</p><p></p><p>We need to destock late summer to slow the grazing down enough, so the autumn rains grow us as much grass as possible for winter grazing purposes, hence we're only allocating about .5% of our area per day at the moment, a maintenance diet while the weather is good - then we can build a big reserve of feed and speed them up, get more stock on for winter as this equals income for us</p><p></p><p>Your situation is quite different to this, your stocking rates are nice and conservative and so you probably won't need to focus on "more grass" but "better grasses getting grazed", shorter recovery will help with that in the short term. </p><p></p><p>25-35 days at a guess? Some go as short as 17 days but I honestly couldn't sleep unless there was rain on the roof! </p><p>We need a recovery period that can bridge our expected dry spells where we farm, the main idea we want to graze feed that "has recovered" as opposed to "is recovering"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7464800, member: 63856"] We are all PP or "improved PP" here, it's a swings and roundabouts thing in all honesty. That's probably why people love the predictable nature of just growing one grass and one clover - with PP, your sheep will target one of the 10 grasses and skin out the clover under continuous grazing (as you see) and leave the rest. For a start, you're going to have to roll with it, because you will end up with pee-poor-performance if you try to "make them eat 90%" of it, so it will be a gradual shift in sward compostion over a few years with compounding gains (y) We're just in the throes of subdividing into a proper multipaddock system (80 paddocks per group, like a dairy farm would have) and this is based around my experience that our old grass which doesn't get any sugar added, likes about 40 days or so. And not only that, the "land" as a whole likes about that with sheep and small cattle on it. With 8 paddocks, that isn't really much of a stretch - you could give them 2-3 days in each ⅛th over the rapid growth period and then slow them down to 3-4, then 4-5 days... and then wean the lambs, and get the ewes to do your landscaping work. You'd probably want to do a "total grazing" with the ewes before winter which will provide nice clean pasture for the next season, ie take all that you can take without them losing weight or teeth over it - again, this may be a crunch time for your ewes so don't jump them in the deep end We need to destock late summer to slow the grazing down enough, so the autumn rains grow us as much grass as possible for winter grazing purposes, hence we're only allocating about .5% of our area per day at the moment, a maintenance diet while the weather is good - then we can build a big reserve of feed and speed them up, get more stock on for winter as this equals income for us Your situation is quite different to this, your stocking rates are nice and conservative and so you probably won't need to focus on "more grass" but "better grasses getting grazed", shorter recovery will help with that in the short term. 25-35 days at a guess? Some go as short as 17 days but I honestly couldn't sleep unless there was rain on the roof! We need a recovery period that can bridge our expected dry spells where we farm, the main idea we want to graze feed that "has recovered" as opposed to "is recovering" [/QUOTE]
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