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Can anyone on here graze cattle all winter long?
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<blockquote data-quote="TexasCountryWoman" data-source="post: 31934" data-attributes="member: 425"><p>I rotate my pastures generally most of the year. I am rejuvenating the old family ranch and much of the original coastal is long gone and my cows simply graze on a flower meadow mixed with regular Bermuda, Bahaya (sp), and the youpon and forest trees. I open gates to patches that have been closed to them for lengths of time during the winter (and other parts of the year) and feed them round bales of coastal at $25/bale only during the end of November til the first of March. I often run my donkey herd and horses together with my cows in the winter (convience) and that makes it difficult to keep exact records on how much hay just the cattle eat. (It seems the horses out eat them all and the donkeys can actually go all winter with no hay, just graze). Ice and snow are not an issue here and some winters there is no hard freeze to kill insects. A good winter for us is one good hard freeze to kill bugs then we are satisfied that the next year is not going to be real bad with bugs. We are building new fences now and hopefully there will be more organization from now on. We hope to aquire a tractor soon which drastically help around here with pasture improvement. </p><p></p><p>Also, I have never heard it called a "BRUSH hog" before, around here and anywhere else I've heard mention, it's a "BUSH hog". Just noticing regional differences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasCountryWoman, post: 31934, member: 425"] I rotate my pastures generally most of the year. I am rejuvenating the old family ranch and much of the original coastal is long gone and my cows simply graze on a flower meadow mixed with regular Bermuda, Bahaya (sp), and the youpon and forest trees. I open gates to patches that have been closed to them for lengths of time during the winter (and other parts of the year) and feed them round bales of coastal at $25/bale only during the end of November til the first of March. I often run my donkey herd and horses together with my cows in the winter (convience) and that makes it difficult to keep exact records on how much hay just the cattle eat. (It seems the horses out eat them all and the donkeys can actually go all winter with no hay, just graze). Ice and snow are not an issue here and some winters there is no hard freeze to kill insects. A good winter for us is one good hard freeze to kill bugs then we are satisfied that the next year is not going to be real bad with bugs. We are building new fences now and hopefully there will be more organization from now on. We hope to aquire a tractor soon which drastically help around here with pasture improvement. Also, I have never heard it called a "BRUSH hog" before, around here and anywhere else I've heard mention, it's a "BUSH hog". Just noticing regional differences. [/QUOTE]
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