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I ended up deep plowing 120 +/- acres this year. I put down crabgrass and the leftover seeds of everything else sitting around from the last few years. I did get about half inch of growth with a few light rains. But then it rained like a cow pissing on a flat rock for a day with patches of...

Kenny we can set something up for warmer weather. Normally I move them once a day. I get up about 4:30 am and move the older cows. The younger cows get moved by 9:00. Once the grass starts growing I will start moving the younger ones twice a day but I set up there padlocks different so I’m...

We could not tell a difference with the apples but they were only getting two 5 gallon buckets between 3 heifers for 120 days. We did quarter them before feeding because I didn’t want to find a cow that choked; but who knows how often that will happen.

EDIT. I draw out the field set up with some information on there setup and some of the water destitution system. I will draw a pic or two on how my water / mineral trailers are set up and see if I can find pics or if my wife knows where the camera is. I think there will be a good amount of...

Hmm pointers... Build a trailer or a sled that has the water, minerals, and salt. Use PVC or fiberglass (for the fence) poles at the front to keep so you can back up to pull it with out cattle being in the way. Use some kind of plastic box to hold extra fence stuff and float valves. Set up...

The citrus gave it a very light grain type flavor with a tang like taste. We love it but it cost too much unless I can get a good size truck load that are somewhat bad and sort out the bad and store the good ones cold. The bad ones make good compost. The say with milk cows that it should be...

I try to keep them on younger grass before it gets woody. I have not tried keeping them on different types of grasses to see how they do and taste. I have tried old apples and pitted peaches, onions and garlic, and oranges and grapefruits as daily snacks. These things did change there flavors...

I like using honey locust for posts. But I do let them age, debark the bottoms, and soak the bottoms in a rubberized asphalt sealer and burnt oil mix for a few hours. I have a few hundred that are 25 years old now and are rock solid. I have never used green honey locust but cowdirt is right...

I have done it a few times but it was a real PITA.

Start with what they will eat in about 40 hours and move them after 24. Once you’re able to judge the amount of eatable vegetation then lower the size of the padlock. Part of the grass will be trampled and you will think it was a waist but it’s not that bad. There is a yard stick that is used...

I change padlocks every day and some times a few times a day. Right now I have my cows split into 3 groups. I made a trailer that holds there minerals, salt, and water that I drag into the next padlock and the cows follow. The downfalls of mob grazing that I have run into on my land were...

As most have said grazing it short, spread it out, and pack it down works best. With clover go for a harder seed; if you let it seed out it will have a better chance of living to the cow pie stage to grow. I make my cows spread it for me now that’s its well established. I just mix half a...

Level land is good. I twisted my ankle to many times last year on that field. In 2 weeks I will have 400 more acres that I will have to do something with. I have no idea what I will be planting out there yet. It’s been row cropped for 50+ years. I have to go map it and grid soil samples in...

I have a gritty red clay base with a 10” gritty black humus layer on top. It holds water but it dose not pool up like some soils. It holds water well but dose not get spongy. The only plowing this field has had was chisel plowing at 9” a few dozen times. The soil got this way because of the...

I only need a good looking alfalfa field. The rest are there to be eaten and to regrow fast. It I plow it to about 20” to mix up the clay then I do get better fields but have a 3 to 5 year recovery ahead of me. I would do it for an alfalfa field down the road but this will not be. I’m fine...

This pasture has not had much work in the last 10 years. It’s had 18 passes with an aerator, 7 passes of lime, 4 pass of fertilizer, and 21 passes of over seeding that was mostly winter wheat and pasture grasses. It’s a mix of weeds, red clover, white Dutch clover, a few patches of alfalfa...

I don’t over encourage weed growth most of the time but I’m still working on a 4 year old gallon of round up concentrate. I have never seen 4’ high crab grass but my cows would give you there next born for few months of crab grass every year. Mine will eat the crabgrass before the alfalfa most...

This is a good web site that’s all about the milkweed. The last paragraph is what your looking for. http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=9955

If you’re using rebar why not weld 3 feet on to each one of them. I did this to my rebar post and the only problems are they don’t store as well after words. If there left out to long they do freeze to the ground but do come up with light kick unless a good amount of stuff has fallen on them...

I have put out 24 rolls of alfalfa and 48 rolls of filler. We have had 9 cold days and 3 raining days that I put out hay. We use a hydraulic unroller and hid the alfalfa between the filler bails. I just unroll the hay out in there next padlock and do a few at a time if I can. Not all the...