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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1800629" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>Pretty much all of my strips are a half mile long... so if they're on the far end, they'd have to walk that full half mile back to the north end... but that's not in a "lane" per se.... it's just one of the strips.... 215' wide..., and I can get them to the water on the far end using any one of the strips. For the most part, they just use the strip that they're grazing on... 1 strip will typically last my herd about 3-4 days... and then they move on to the next one. My point being, the nutrients that are being dropped are being dropped on the fields that they're grazing on... so not wasted at all.</p><p></p><p>Once they get to the other end, last year, when I was watering them on the creek, the furthest they'd have to go then from the end of the strip..., "in the lane on the end", to the creek, would be another 1/4 mile or so, if they were on the furthest away strip. So maybe 3/4 mile to a mile. </p><p></p><p>I want to extend the water line that I put in last fall, so that I never have to water them on the creek basically (put waterers on the back end of the farm in the "headland" too). Ideally, I'd put one inline with every other subdivision fence, centered in that headland on the end of the farm (80' wide headland).... then the furthest they'd have to walk would be 1/2 mile... if they were on the far end of the strip. In practice though, I wouldn't install a waterer in a low spot... and I might even avoid putting one on the side slope, preferring that they be put on a high point or knob, for drainage. On my farm, that might mean they'd have to walk another 300-400' extra in that "headland".</p><p></p><p>However, even that headland is considered to be "field" and pasture (that's part of why I make them 80' wide). So any manure applied there in that "headland/lane" is also not wasted. My biggest concern about walking them very far in that headland... like I HAVE been having to do to get them to the creek, is that they're walking up and down the hills there... so the cowpaths tend to be prone to more erosion. That's another reason why I want to get waterers installed on the back end of the farm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1800629, member: 39018"] Pretty much all of my strips are a half mile long... so if they're on the far end, they'd have to walk that full half mile back to the north end... but that's not in a "lane" per se.... it's just one of the strips.... 215' wide..., and I can get them to the water on the far end using any one of the strips. For the most part, they just use the strip that they're grazing on... 1 strip will typically last my herd about 3-4 days... and then they move on to the next one. My point being, the nutrients that are being dropped are being dropped on the fields that they're grazing on... so not wasted at all. Once they get to the other end, last year, when I was watering them on the creek, the furthest they'd have to go then from the end of the strip..., "in the lane on the end", to the creek, would be another 1/4 mile or so, if they were on the furthest away strip. So maybe 3/4 mile to a mile. I want to extend the water line that I put in last fall, so that I never have to water them on the creek basically (put waterers on the back end of the farm in the "headland" too). Ideally, I'd put one inline with every other subdivision fence, centered in that headland on the end of the farm (80' wide headland).... then the furthest they'd have to walk would be 1/2 mile... if they were on the far end of the strip. In practice though, I wouldn't install a waterer in a low spot... and I might even avoid putting one on the side slope, preferring that they be put on a high point or knob, for drainage. On my farm, that might mean they'd have to walk another 300-400' extra in that "headland". However, even that headland is considered to be "field" and pasture (that's part of why I make them 80' wide). So any manure applied there in that "headland/lane" is also not wasted. My biggest concern about walking them very far in that headland... like I HAVE been having to do to get them to the creek, is that they're walking up and down the hills there... so the cowpaths tend to be prone to more erosion. That's another reason why I want to get waterers installed on the back end of the farm. [/QUOTE]
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