First, I'd probably suggest that you potentially could "increase" the density of your manure coverage more so it looks more like "Silver's" than Dave's (more pats even closer together, by feeding MORE ANIMALS there, for a longer period of time), so that you don't end up with more sparsely spaced manure clumps, which turn into more sparsely spaced grass clumps.
Second, I'd probably suggest that maybe you're not achieving enough "rest & recovery time" between when the feeding, and then also by that feeding, the manure... has been applied, .................and when the grass is intended to be consumed. How long has it been between these events?
Third, I think that you'll find that as you move down this soil building, biology building path, this issue will become less and less of a concern, specifically BECAUSE you'll be accelerating the consumption rate of the soil micro-biome, to the point where those cow-pats just don't last nearly as long as they used to... As your soil biological populations explode, they also have to be being fed commensurately. THEY are what generate the plant available nutrients, through their "life-cycling"... living, consuming, and dying, ...at an ever increasing rate, and in ever increasing numbers. That turning over of "biological bodies" in the soil is what creates that really rich soil that the grass thrives on... (it's also what makes that really rich, "living soil" smell so sweet!).
The biological system wasn't designed to require US to break up those cow-pats. It was designed (by God) to function perfectly all on its own, as a "perpetual motion machine"! We just need to LET IT, and perhaps at times, once we understand how it functions, to "help it" (nurturing and keeping, Gen. 2:15), by intentionally providing more fuel, so that more biology can grow and function at a higher level. THAT is where livestock in the equation, ON THE LAND, and potentially bringing in organic matter (i.e.: in the form of hay and other feed for the animals, or other plant material, or compost, etc.) can really exceptionally ramp up the soil biological capacity. You could have absolutely nothing but pure granite rock hundreds of feet thick, and if you bring in hay, and let the animals consume it and poop and pee all over that rock you WILL be building soil right on top of that rock. If you just "house" the cattle on that rock with no bedding, and move them off and feed them elsewhere, you will be building soil there too, because they will be pooping and peeing and drooling, etc., all over that rock, when they are there..., your "soil building" just won't be as fast. And if you only "haul some manure onto that rock" from a feedlot someplace, you ALSO will begin building soil on that rock.
But the fastest way to build it will be to actually keep and feed those animals right there ON that rock..., because their living presence there is daily and continuously adding in biological components to that soil building process that just "bringing the animal waste" to it simply doesn't and can't do in the same way, and to the same level. Some of that added biology may only have the ability to be alive once it's been shed by the animal for a few hours... but because it was there, and continues to be there because the animals are LIVING there, it continues to be a part of that biological equation that's called "life". A part of that biological life that we've been called to "NURTURE"................... and to "KEEP".
THAT is why it can be so beneficial to be actually properly "housing and feeding" the livestock right there on the pastures that we want to grow. Anything less,.... is exactly that.......... "less".
