Post Oak":u2rmnebk said:
If you wait 30 days on Bahia ,much less 100 days,it will be about too tough to eat.
I guess were talking apples and oranges here. I guess I threw a lot of people into hysteria when I said 100 days ungrazed. I may start out in the spring with 30 day rotations, then go to 50 or 60. Right now I am looking at 120 days to maybe 140 days thru this stockpiled fescue, which is actually stockpiling in the process. All summer long they have just been ignoring it or just eating the top off of it, while consuming the summer grasses and forbs and clovers that's mixed in there too.
If somebody doesn't have much fescue, then its hard to understand how it just gets better from about September onward.
Orchard grass comes close, but its not as good as fescue for winter forage.
When it come to long rotations, I have found that if I have a pasture/paddock that doesn't appear as productive as it should be, if I skip it/ leave it out of the rotation one time it seems to improve it a lot. That gives new seedlings a chance to get established etc. and if it looks like it's not going to be " fit to eat" as some say I can just go in there and clip the top off and it will be fit to eat at the right time I need it.