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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 635917" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>I would suggest reducing the grass you give them each day. You don't say how many head you have but if they are hungry and you open a new stretch of grass there is a "mob" psychology that takes over and they eat about anything - at least that's what I see from my Herefords. </p><p></p><p>There was a stretch last summer when it was very dry and each paddock needed the maximum amount of rest to recover. Rather than give them 5-6 days worth, which let them be picky, I dropped it down to one days worth. They ate everything and trampled less.</p><p></p><p>What I have also found helps the manure pile aversion is to graze a couple paddocks inline with each other then shift them to another group of paddocks. Remove the cross wires in the first paddock and then drag it at high speed before the manure piles get too hard. This spreads them out, tends to kill some fly larvae and after a couple good rains they disappear. Next time in the pasture there is little tendency to avoid manure piles because there aren't many. This also spreads the fertilizer for the grass.</p><p></p><p>Don't ever drag a pasture with cattle in it or that they will be going to soon as this could spread disease. I drag it as soon as they leave a paddock or series.</p><p></p><p>When doing the daily moves I just advanced the lead wire each day down a rectangluar paddock then dragged the whole paddock at the end of the week.</p><p></p><p>This is a good harrow to drag manure: <a href="http://www.wingfields.com/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wingfields.com/index.htm</a></p><p></p><p>Not too aggressive to destroy sod but does a nice job on manure, maybe scratch in a bit of fertilizer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 635917, member: 7509"] I would suggest reducing the grass you give them each day. You don't say how many head you have but if they are hungry and you open a new stretch of grass there is a "mob" psychology that takes over and they eat about anything - at least that's what I see from my Herefords. There was a stretch last summer when it was very dry and each paddock needed the maximum amount of rest to recover. Rather than give them 5-6 days worth, which let them be picky, I dropped it down to one days worth. They ate everything and trampled less. What I have also found helps the manure pile aversion is to graze a couple paddocks inline with each other then shift them to another group of paddocks. Remove the cross wires in the first paddock and then drag it at high speed before the manure piles get too hard. This spreads them out, tends to kill some fly larvae and after a couple good rains they disappear. Next time in the pasture there is little tendency to avoid manure piles because there aren't many. This also spreads the fertilizer for the grass. Don't ever drag a pasture with cattle in it or that they will be going to soon as this could spread disease. I drag it as soon as they leave a paddock or series. When doing the daily moves I just advanced the lead wire each day down a rectangluar paddock then dragged the whole paddock at the end of the week. This is a good harrow to drag manure: [url]http://www.wingfields.com/index.htm[/url] Not too aggressive to destroy sod but does a nice job on manure, maybe scratch in a bit of fertilizer. [/QUOTE]
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