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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1656292" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>I read an article yesterday from GrassFed Solutions, on grazing winter stockpile. They suggest once you get to that (stockpiled feed), you should take it all off in the first graze... so increase the grazing density drastically, and only give them what they'll eat each day. I've been flopping back and forth on this, wondering what would be the best way.... graze it all off like they suggest, or rotating them, but then coming back around again for a second, or perhaps even a third pass over it, through the winter. He's suggesting that they'll trample it down, so it'll be buried, and all the snow will have all the air gone out of it once they've been across it, so when it's buried, they can't get down to it anymore, ...so you really need to take it all on that first pass across. Alot of truth in that I suppose.</p><p></p><p>I've found though that whatever they might leave behind that gets buried is still there come spring when it starts to melt. Gives you some extra wiggle room with that thatch when it's thawing some... and the cattle seem to be pretty eager to leave the bales as soon as the "stockpile" gets exposed again then. If you grazed it down short, that spring thaw time is gonna be pretty much eliminated, I would think.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?????</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1656292, member: 39018"] I read an article yesterday from GrassFed Solutions, on grazing winter stockpile. They suggest once you get to that (stockpiled feed), you should take it all off in the first graze... so increase the grazing density drastically, and only give them what they'll eat each day. I've been flopping back and forth on this, wondering what would be the best way.... graze it all off like they suggest, or rotating them, but then coming back around again for a second, or perhaps even a third pass over it, through the winter. He's suggesting that they'll trample it down, so it'll be buried, and all the snow will have all the air gone out of it once they've been across it, so when it's buried, they can't get down to it anymore, ...so you really need to take it all on that first pass across. Alot of truth in that I suppose. I've found though that whatever they might leave behind that gets buried is still there come spring when it starts to melt. Gives you some extra wiggle room with that thatch when it's thawing some... and the cattle seem to be pretty eager to leave the bales as soon as the "stockpile" gets exposed again then. If you grazed it down short, that spring thaw time is gonna be pretty much eliminated, I would think. Thoughts????? [/QUOTE]
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