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Drone spraying hasn't really hit the big time, from what I hear, and likely won't... With "electric batteries" and "range anxiety", carrying much capacity (acres covered per load) means the weight gets to be too much to be very practical. Can't carry much of a load at all, but if your guy is...

They're probably all descendants of Ferdinand the Bull......

My suggestion would be, in a drought, graze taller, more mature grass, and never put them on a pasture until it's ready for them... it's easier to feed hay in summer than it is in winter... pull them off the pasture onto an adequately sized "sacrifice lot" whenever its necessary and allow those...

You have a shop???? What's a shop?????????? :)

Gotta be careful you don't fall into a crevass!

We're past the snow (although it was threatening with a few flakes again just two days ago), but it's been so cold, even freezing overnight yet, that the grass just hasn't gotten started yet. So we'll need to feed for at least another 2 weeks yet too. That doesn't mean that a few haven't...

Hay is more difficult to "carry over" than grain is... and not generally a better market waiting for it as it ages. They pretty much HAVE TO get each year's crop marketed before starting to make that next year's crop... so once the cattle start going to pasture and feeding stops, the market...

Don't forget the land cost, and trucking. Nobody can do either for nothing. Around here, $300/acre for land is toward the bottom end now... so at your 4 rolls per acre, that alone is $75/bale. Storage (including plastic wrap?) = $15/bale, hauling bales off the field to storage (Iowa State...

Honestly though, IF YOU GET THE RAINS, and your soil is good, you're at about the same stocking density as what I've got at my "other place". I'm at about 1 acre per AU there through the summer (but I DO feel like I'm overstocked there too). I generally am "comfortable" planning for 1.25...

CV, your terrain is pretty hilly/steep... more similar to where I grew up in the bluffs above the Mississippi River Valley. Our fields there were farmed on the contour. Makes everything alot more difficult... Walking the cattle to anywhere for water will generate cowpaths.... if you can keep...

Yup.

Pretty much all of my strips are a half mile long... so if they're on the far end, they'd have to walk that full half mile back to the north end... but that's not in a "lane" per se.... it's just one of the strips.... 215' wide..., and I can get them to the water on the far end using any one of...

I had about $350 in it. Not as much as they're selling those cutesy backyard coops for... and those wouldn't be "portable". I drag this around in the growing season, moving every few days or so. I DID build it a couple of years ago (just before the "Covid plandemic"), so I'd expect PVC is...

Here's what I built for a "chicken tractor". I still want to add a few roll out nests (mount on the wall, so the eggs will roll to the outside... don't have to go inside to gather them, and the eggs wouldn't get as dirty), but other than that, I really like it. Used 1/4" screen over it and...

NO, simple answer! If you've got 100 sheep in a pasture, and one gets out, how many do you have left in the pasture? (Right answer: 0) :) With goats, if it'll hold water, it'll hold goats.............. You'd have to use the electrified netting to be reasonably confident they'll stay in...

CV, how many acres are you working with there in the pic? It doesn't APPEAR to be much TOTAL ground for the number of animals that I count in the other images... curious what your animal density per total grazable acres is... it would APPEAR to be pretty high. Wondering how you make that work...

CV, I know you've already stated you liked the suggestion of the 3/8" fiberglass rods instead of the pigtails... Just reposting in reply to your comment above for anybody coming late to this post. Much easier to carry and store, with no tangling. Lighter in weight and cheaper too. Wrap the...

Obviously I'm not CV... but you can see a diagram of how my operation is set up using limited watering stations with an explanation posted on the first page of this thread (toward the bottom of the page). This design allows me to have as much or as little area for grazing as I need, anywhere on...

I don't use Batt-Latches myself, but my cousin's son does. You should install it so that ONLY the spring gate lays on the ground, and that should be isolated from the fence so it will only be powered up when it's closed, so it doesn't ground the fence when it opens up. Yes, THAT will be laying...

They don't have to raise the % levy, as long as the valuations go up at this clip, they'll still be getting their 20+% annual raise in spending money. Even if you leveled all the buildings, the land itself (at least here) is inflating at an unsustainable rate. Maybe we need a law that says...