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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1456988" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>First off, welcome to CT. Hope you get to be able to have a few head. I have an old computer and cannot seem to enlarge the pictures so can't really tell you much about your ideas. But that said, have you talked to any county extension agents? As taxpayers, we pay their salaries, so get in touch with them and pick their brains, ask for advice, and see if they will come out and give you their 2 cents. It's free... Not saying you have to or even should take their advice, but a good one can be very helpful. </p><p> What is growing there now? I would probably split the 6 acre pasture in half or thirds, rotational graze them there, and if the grass is fairly decent you will get even more "grass time" than if you were to run them on the whole thing. And maybe utilize the 3 acre across the road in the rotation early on and then let it grow and stockpile for the winter.</p><p> </p><p>We have a fair amount of winter here in Va so I cannot tell you how to utilize it since we do have 4 months of non-growing weather normally. But we do stockpile grass on 2 places and last year grazed the cattle with minimal supplemental hay because we had a winter of no snow accumulation and temps were not so awful bad for much of the winter. I think overall we used about half the hay we normally do, in a "normal" winter with snow and colder temps. We do rotational grazing at several places we rent since there are fences and water available in the separate fields. Electric is not practical due to the heavy deer populations and that we do not get to every field to check the fence on a daily basis. On the places we have where we are in and out daily, electric works to split things up a bit.</p><p></p><p>There are a few members in AL and maybe NC that might have some weather closer to what you have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1456988, member: 25884"] First off, welcome to CT. Hope you get to be able to have a few head. I have an old computer and cannot seem to enlarge the pictures so can't really tell you much about your ideas. But that said, have you talked to any county extension agents? As taxpayers, we pay their salaries, so get in touch with them and pick their brains, ask for advice, and see if they will come out and give you their 2 cents. It's free... Not saying you have to or even should take their advice, but a good one can be very helpful. What is growing there now? I would probably split the 6 acre pasture in half or thirds, rotational graze them there, and if the grass is fairly decent you will get even more "grass time" than if you were to run them on the whole thing. And maybe utilize the 3 acre across the road in the rotation early on and then let it grow and stockpile for the winter. We have a fair amount of winter here in Va so I cannot tell you how to utilize it since we do have 4 months of non-growing weather normally. But we do stockpile grass on 2 places and last year grazed the cattle with minimal supplemental hay because we had a winter of no snow accumulation and temps were not so awful bad for much of the winter. I think overall we used about half the hay we normally do, in a "normal" winter with snow and colder temps. We do rotational grazing at several places we rent since there are fences and water available in the separate fields. Electric is not practical due to the heavy deer populations and that we do not get to every field to check the fence on a daily basis. On the places we have where we are in and out daily, electric works to split things up a bit. There are a few members in AL and maybe NC that might have some weather closer to what you have. [/QUOTE]
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