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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1642942" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Dunno what the weather situation, growing seasons, etc., for your neck of the woods are. But I had a similar situation in the 80's, in north Ga, where I leased about a 100 acre pasture. The barn, working pens ( and we put up a team roping arena as well) and the water, were nearly smack dab in the middle. I cut it into 4 pastures; north , south, eas, and west of the facilities. I had 25-30 head of cows, and I'd graze them a week in each pasture, giving the other 3 three weeks each to re-generate. They had to go into the facilities area for water, salt, protein tubs and liquid supplement feeders, so it was easy to shut them up in that facility the night we wanted to move them, and just open the gate to the new pasture we wanted to move them to. I'd put the horses into the one we just moved the cows out of each week, because you don't want horses on knee deep green grass, so this worked out fine. Here, I'd have to feed hay Dec through February, so I'd end up keeping them in one pasture, and sow wheat and/or rye in the other three, and would have a good stand of those come March. With just 16 head, I'd say divide yours into 4 pastures, and rotate them weekly. Depending on, again, your weather and the type grasses you have, you might not have to feed 16 calves much hay at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1642942, member: 40587"] Dunno what the weather situation, growing seasons, etc., for your neck of the woods are. But I had a similar situation in the 80's, in north Ga, where I leased about a 100 acre pasture. The barn, working pens ( and we put up a team roping arena as well) and the water, were nearly smack dab in the middle. I cut it into 4 pastures; north , south, eas, and west of the facilities. I had 25-30 head of cows, and I'd graze them a week in each pasture, giving the other 3 three weeks each to re-generate. They had to go into the facilities area for water, salt, protein tubs and liquid supplement feeders, so it was easy to shut them up in that facility the night we wanted to move them, and just open the gate to the new pasture we wanted to move them to. I'd put the horses into the one we just moved the cows out of each week, because you don't want horses on knee deep green grass, so this worked out fine. Here, I'd have to feed hay Dec through February, so I'd end up keeping them in one pasture, and sow wheat and/or rye in the other three, and would have a good stand of those come March. With just 16 head, I'd say divide yours into 4 pastures, and rotate them weekly. Depending on, again, your weather and the type grasses you have, you might not have to feed 16 calves much hay at all. [/QUOTE]
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