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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1849288" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>Welcome to Cattle today! It would be good to know the kind of grass that you have. With only 1 cow/calf pair and ultimately 6 acres to graze on, you aren't going to have any concerns about overgrazing, not really even if you never rotate your cow. Typically I tell producers to develop a 5 pasture rotation system allowing livestock to graze a pasture for a week and never graze it closer than 3 inches, and then rest each pasture for 4 weeks between grazings. Do watch the grass height to ensure spot grazing isint occurring and heights get shorter than 3. I don't expect that to happen. Do make sure that an excessive amount of seedheads aren't produced by your grass pastures. A couple reasons for this. First, grass growth slows down (less production) if it occurs. I'd say this isn't a big deal to you. However, plants get a little coarser and less palatible and lower in nutrition in older, more mature (seedhead producing) individual plants. Also, and more important, you probably have tall fescue. It's a double-edged sword. Its one of the most durable and productive cool-season sod producing forage grasses you can have (It's a good thing). It also contains an endophyte (the 'wild, Kentucky 31 variety) that is going to be the variety you have. This endophyte is present throughout the plant but is most likely to reach problematic concentrations in seedheads. So, what would do, is I would graze a pasture for two weeks and on the day you move the cow to the other pasture, mow the pastureyou just moved the cow OUT OF, to a 4 inch height. This will remove any forming seedheads and allow for removal of less edible forage and result in regeneration of fresh forage (more nutritious) when cows are rotated back into the pasture 2 weeks later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1849288, member: 43196"] Welcome to Cattle today! It would be good to know the kind of grass that you have. With only 1 cow/calf pair and ultimately 6 acres to graze on, you aren't going to have any concerns about overgrazing, not really even if you never rotate your cow. Typically I tell producers to develop a 5 pasture rotation system allowing livestock to graze a pasture for a week and never graze it closer than 3 inches, and then rest each pasture for 4 weeks between grazings. Do watch the grass height to ensure spot grazing isint occurring and heights get shorter than 3. I don't expect that to happen. Do make sure that an excessive amount of seedheads aren't produced by your grass pastures. A couple reasons for this. First, grass growth slows down (less production) if it occurs. I'd say this isn't a big deal to you. However, plants get a little coarser and less palatible and lower in nutrition in older, more mature (seedhead producing) individual plants. Also, and more important, you probably have tall fescue. It's a double-edged sword. Its one of the most durable and productive cool-season sod producing forage grasses you can have (It's a good thing). It also contains an endophyte (the 'wild, Kentucky 31 variety) that is going to be the variety you have. This endophyte is present throughout the plant but is most likely to reach problematic concentrations in seedheads. So, what would do, is I would graze a pasture for two weeks and on the day you move the cow to the other pasture, mow the pastureyou just moved the cow OUT OF, to a 4 inch height. This will remove any forming seedheads and allow for removal of less edible forage and result in regeneration of fresh forage (more nutritious) when cows are rotated back into the pasture 2 weeks later. [/QUOTE]
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