Rotational Grazing Cattle
It honestly does not get much better than this - who’s with me?! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Green pastures. Beautiful sunrise & the happiness of what having cattle does for the soul.
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Rotational grazing is the practice of moving grazing livestock between pastures (often called paddocks) as needed or on a regular basis. There are many approaches and types of grazing that fall under the broad umbrella of rotational grazing. The simplest is moving livestock between paddocks every set number of days:
two days - one week - one month!
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But well-managed rotational grazing means that you evaluate the nutritional and forage needs of your animals, assess forage quality and quantity, regulate the acreage of access and control which parts of the pasture/range that the animals have access to.
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We chose to rotate our cows on 6-8 acre paddocks every few days depending on the grass regrowth. We use several different types of reels, posts & poly wire - the @gallagheranimalmanagement reel is one of my favorite reels to use in our personal practice.
Did you know that by just rotating your livestock you can:
•Increased soil fertility
•Increased resistance to drought
•Less wasting of forage
•Soil compaction
•Control less desirable plants (weeds)
•Improved animal management
Want to tag along & move the herd with us?! Watch & learn more on our YouTube channel!
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