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<blockquote data-quote="hillbillycwo" data-source="post: 854294" data-attributes="member: 13747"><p>I would guestimate oyur condition issue has more to do with lack of rainfall than anything else. </p><p></p><p>I have found just the opposite with my esperiment with rotational grazing. But I have 7, 4 acre paddocks and rotate my cows every 3-7 days (25 head) depending on forage growth. This gives an average of 20-25 days regrowth per pasture before the rotation is started again. Which in turn keeps the grass in a growth state on a continual basis. However, without some rain then the grass goes dorment and regrow slows. In that case I have to lengthen the grazing period by putting cows into the lanes feed em a roll or two of hay or I must open hay fields too them for a week to give the pastures time to grow back some. This year thankfully I only had to feed them in the lane 2 rolls of hay, they grazed the lane to dirt and cleaned the hay up that week long period gave time for regrowth inthe pastures and we went back to rotational grazing through the paddocks. Oh eah forgot to mention that after I rolled hay in my hay fields and got the rolls in the barn I let the cows clean each field up, gave them 1-2 days in each field. Worked great, no fence lines to mow and no wasted grass.</p><p></p><p>I think the main reason rotational grazing works for me is the fact my son is there to check grass and cow conditon everyday and give new fields to the cows as they need it when they need it. This increases utilization rates of the grass and increases manure disttribution but someone has to be there to watch the grass height. Plus we haven't had near the lack of rain as others have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillbillycwo, post: 854294, member: 13747"] I would guestimate oyur condition issue has more to do with lack of rainfall than anything else. I have found just the opposite with my esperiment with rotational grazing. But I have 7, 4 acre paddocks and rotate my cows every 3-7 days (25 head) depending on forage growth. This gives an average of 20-25 days regrowth per pasture before the rotation is started again. Which in turn keeps the grass in a growth state on a continual basis. However, without some rain then the grass goes dorment and regrow slows. In that case I have to lengthen the grazing period by putting cows into the lanes feed em a roll or two of hay or I must open hay fields too them for a week to give the pastures time to grow back some. This year thankfully I only had to feed them in the lane 2 rolls of hay, they grazed the lane to dirt and cleaned the hay up that week long period gave time for regrowth inthe pastures and we went back to rotational grazing through the paddocks. Oh eah forgot to mention that after I rolled hay in my hay fields and got the rolls in the barn I let the cows clean each field up, gave them 1-2 days in each field. Worked great, no fence lines to mow and no wasted grass. I think the main reason rotational grazing works for me is the fact my son is there to check grass and cow conditon everyday and give new fields to the cows as they need it when they need it. This increases utilization rates of the grass and increases manure disttribution but someone has to be there to watch the grass height. Plus we haven't had near the lack of rain as others have. [/QUOTE]
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