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<blockquote data-quote="canoetrpr" data-source="post: 768378" data-attributes="member: 4892"><p>Great pics. We have just started our little herd this year and I was worried about the carrying capacity of our land. We are doing rotational grazing and spent quite a bit to get setup with perimeter hot wire around our permanent fence and temporary wire and so on. The guy who set me up is an expert in management intensive rotational grazing and also set up a watering system with a 3/4" poly pipe and quick attaches running to my paddocks.</p><p></p><p>The grass has done incredibly well. I have one or two paddocks that are very very wet in the spring so I have only gotten the cows back there over the last couple of weeks. Heck I could have gotten a hay crop from those two paddocks! There was so much to go around.</p><p></p><p>I too have found that clipping the paddocks after grazing is best. Helps with the weeds quite a bit.</p><p></p><p>I have the same issue with you with two paddocks out of the 5 having nearly no shade. I have Galloways. We just had a heat wave here and temperatures got to 34 degrees Celcius in the afternoon. That is about the hottest it gets here. Some rain has finally cooled things down in the last couple of days. They cows seemed to handle it fine - they were in a paddock with no shade. I'm trying to come up with something to allow a few paddocks to share a walkway that will take them to some shade though.</p><p></p><p>Right now on 8 or so acres of pasture I have 4 cows, 4 calves and 1 bull. Given how things have been this year, I think that I could have done fine with 2x the cows. Certainly will have no problem retaining the two lovely heifer calves I have and the two bull calves who will be steered for beef, along with next years calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="canoetrpr, post: 768378, member: 4892"] Great pics. We have just started our little herd this year and I was worried about the carrying capacity of our land. We are doing rotational grazing and spent quite a bit to get setup with perimeter hot wire around our permanent fence and temporary wire and so on. The guy who set me up is an expert in management intensive rotational grazing and also set up a watering system with a 3/4" poly pipe and quick attaches running to my paddocks. The grass has done incredibly well. I have one or two paddocks that are very very wet in the spring so I have only gotten the cows back there over the last couple of weeks. Heck I could have gotten a hay crop from those two paddocks! There was so much to go around. I too have found that clipping the paddocks after grazing is best. Helps with the weeds quite a bit. I have the same issue with you with two paddocks out of the 5 having nearly no shade. I have Galloways. We just had a heat wave here and temperatures got to 34 degrees Celcius in the afternoon. That is about the hottest it gets here. Some rain has finally cooled things down in the last couple of days. They cows seemed to handle it fine - they were in a paddock with no shade. I'm trying to come up with something to allow a few paddocks to share a walkway that will take them to some shade though. Right now on 8 or so acres of pasture I have 4 cows, 4 calves and 1 bull. Given how things have been this year, I think that I could have done fine with 2x the cows. Certainly will have no problem retaining the two lovely heifer calves I have and the two bull calves who will be steered for beef, along with next years calves. [/QUOTE]
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