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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1550226" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p><a href="http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs/agr/agr191/agr191.pdf" target="_blank">http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs/agr/agr191/agr191.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>The comparative that most of us have is how many bales would it take to carry X cows for Y days. If you know the real weight of your bales and can get close to the utilization rate of the hay waste/eaten then you can begin to get a handle on the forage in a pasture and cow days. We have strip grazed fescue of 30+ years. You have to dedicate the time that you want to spend. I have used 2 day, one day and 2X day rotation. My preference in a close year is 2X day. But also you have to cull the cows that refuse to participate and stay in the wire. It is a good deal and we enjoy it. But the tight patterns will also set you up for plugged areas during wet seasons. So, trade offs.</p><p></p><p>The other difference is that it is easier and gives you more grazing to stall rotations in the late fall if the season has been dry and stockpiling is still occurring. You can feed moderate quality hay for 30 days, say in October/November in a sacrifice area, generally the ground is dry and the cows are not as needy and when you do start strip grazing you can avoid late winter hay feeding that become a mud bog. Of if you have adequate summer forages you can skip the fall hay. Our summer slump can be pretty severe here so that is when hay is more of a tool than a feed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1550226, member: 24565"] [url]http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs/agr/agr191/agr191.pdf[/url] The comparative that most of us have is how many bales would it take to carry X cows for Y days. If you know the real weight of your bales and can get close to the utilization rate of the hay waste/eaten then you can begin to get a handle on the forage in a pasture and cow days. We have strip grazed fescue of 30+ years. You have to dedicate the time that you want to spend. I have used 2 day, one day and 2X day rotation. My preference in a close year is 2X day. But also you have to cull the cows that refuse to participate and stay in the wire. It is a good deal and we enjoy it. But the tight patterns will also set you up for plugged areas during wet seasons. So, trade offs. The other difference is that it is easier and gives you more grazing to stall rotations in the late fall if the season has been dry and stockpiling is still occurring. You can feed moderate quality hay for 30 days, say in October/November in a sacrifice area, generally the ground is dry and the cows are not as needy and when you do start strip grazing you can avoid late winter hay feeding that become a mud bog. Of if you have adequate summer forages you can skip the fall hay. Our summer slump can be pretty severe here so that is when hay is more of a tool than a feed. [/QUOTE]
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