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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 760930" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Don't know what your understory consists of but here woods grazing will offer a lot of nutrition during certain seasons. Protein in fresh muscadine is not far from alphalfa, beauty bush and a host of others will also push the nutrition on the high side as well. Key to grazing the woods is learning what is beneficial and when. IMO, woods grazing is an overlooked assett. I'm still learning but I have found it useful many times as a safety valve. As a general rule, woods are equate to 7:1 to improved pastures. Best advice I can give is to study the understory and don't overgraze. Overgrazing will force the cattle to eat plants that might be poisonous. Cows aren't stupid but if they don't have a choice they will eat the bad stuff. I've lost one to this or possibly a snake bite - not sure. I have a friend that has a wood's herd and he picks up around $60,000 a year off this herd with zero input. Hardest thing about this operation is penning and loading them since they are a bit shy. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 760930, member: 4362"] Don't know what your understory consists of but here woods grazing will offer a lot of nutrition during certain seasons. Protein in fresh muscadine is not far from alphalfa, beauty bush and a host of others will also push the nutrition on the high side as well. Key to grazing the woods is learning what is beneficial and when. IMO, woods grazing is an overlooked assett. I'm still learning but I have found it useful many times as a safety valve. As a general rule, woods are equate to 7:1 to improved pastures. Best advice I can give is to study the understory and don't overgraze. Overgrazing will force the cattle to eat plants that might be poisonous. Cows aren't stupid but if they don't have a choice they will eat the bad stuff. I've lost one to this or possibly a snake bite - not sure. I have a friend that has a wood's herd and he picks up around $60,000 a year off this herd with zero input. Hardest thing about this operation is penning and loading them since they are a bit shy. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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