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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1046705" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>I don't know anything about grazing goats (and don't care to!), but we practice MIG and have been for about 5 years now. Our parameter is made of 5 strand barb wire with one single strand of the wire that is electrified, about waist height. Then we sub divide the pastures into grazing plots depending on how much forage and how many cows. In the picture below, we are running 19 cows and 8 calves, and rotate about every 2 and a half days. Each plot is about 1.5 acres, but that is just a guess. The entire field is 13 acres, and we just move the single strand of polywire from plot to plot. In an ideal world, we would have 8 or more rolls, with several hundred of the step in poles and preset everything. But all that cost a lot of money! So we set up two plots at a time, using three roles of wire and about 15 step in posts per line. Each year we buy a few more posts and wire/rolls. We only have 45 acres, but graze more than 20 mature cows on it year round, along with getting hay for the winter (we hope, last year we had to supplement the hay with purchased hay since we had no rain!). The pasture pictured below we cut in May for hay, and this is the regrowth. I had to brush hog it a few weeks ago, set high, because the grasshoppers ate all the leaves off the clover and left just the stems with dried up flowers, and I did not want to deal with pink eye (had one case last week, because the first section we grazed on did not get cut before the cows were moved). Anyway, very doable, and it spreads your feed a lot farther! If you look to the right of the cows, that is where we just rotated off of, and you can see where the old polywire fence line was, because to the right of that is regrowth from the plot they were on just three days ago!</p><p><img src="http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/grazing_pastures.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1046705, member: 18809"] I don't know anything about grazing goats (and don't care to!), but we practice MIG and have been for about 5 years now. Our parameter is made of 5 strand barb wire with one single strand of the wire that is electrified, about waist height. Then we sub divide the pastures into grazing plots depending on how much forage and how many cows. In the picture below, we are running 19 cows and 8 calves, and rotate about every 2 and a half days. Each plot is about 1.5 acres, but that is just a guess. The entire field is 13 acres, and we just move the single strand of polywire from plot to plot. In an ideal world, we would have 8 or more rolls, with several hundred of the step in poles and preset everything. But all that cost a lot of money! So we set up two plots at a time, using three roles of wire and about 15 step in posts per line. Each year we buy a few more posts and wire/rolls. We only have 45 acres, but graze more than 20 mature cows on it year round, along with getting hay for the winter (we hope, last year we had to supplement the hay with purchased hay since we had no rain!). The pasture pictured below we cut in May for hay, and this is the regrowth. I had to brush hog it a few weeks ago, set high, because the grasshoppers ate all the leaves off the clover and left just the stems with dried up flowers, and I did not want to deal with pink eye (had one case last week, because the first section we grazed on did not get cut before the cows were moved). Anyway, very doable, and it spreads your feed a lot farther! If you look to the right of the cows, that is where we just rotated off of, and you can see where the old polywire fence line was, because to the right of that is regrowth from the plot they were on just three days ago! [img]http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/grazing_pastures.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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