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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1795431" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>Maybe just plant a patch of fast growing trees strategically for shade if need be, if you don't have any you can already take advantage of. Some species (soft-wood species) can grow so fast that in just a few years time you can have significant shade from 'em. </p><p></p><p>I prefer to fence my land so that I have "headlands", along the ends of all the "strips" that run off of them. I'll put about an 80' wide "headland" on each end. Then, let's say that one of the strips might have a halfway decent woods someplace on it... I can then use polywire to block off the strips across the headland I DON'T want the animals in, and use it as a "laneway" to get them to the strip with the woods on it. THAT strip might be as much as a half mile or even more from where I'm intending to be grazing them for the day. They'll find their way to the woods for relief during the heat of the day, but then will come out from there onto where I want them to graze in the late afternoon and evening, and will stay there through the night and until late morning the next day.</p><p></p><p>I'll only give them access to the woods when "necessary"... if it isn't necessary, then they'll just be fenced out onto their grazing area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1795431, member: 39018"] Maybe just plant a patch of fast growing trees strategically for shade if need be, if you don't have any you can already take advantage of. Some species (soft-wood species) can grow so fast that in just a few years time you can have significant shade from 'em. I prefer to fence my land so that I have "headlands", along the ends of all the "strips" that run off of them. I'll put about an 80' wide "headland" on each end. Then, let's say that one of the strips might have a halfway decent woods someplace on it... I can then use polywire to block off the strips across the headland I DON'T want the animals in, and use it as a "laneway" to get them to the strip with the woods on it. THAT strip might be as much as a half mile or even more from where I'm intending to be grazing them for the day. They'll find their way to the woods for relief during the heat of the day, but then will come out from there onto where I want them to graze in the late afternoon and evening, and will stay there through the night and until late morning the next day. I'll only give them access to the woods when "necessary"... if it isn't necessary, then they'll just be fenced out onto their grazing area. [/QUOTE]
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