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Pretty good indication they are pleased with their grass now. Grass is bermuda, pretty dry, with some green. I put a couple of 200 pound tubs 10 days ago, with probably one-third left. 21 cows, three calves, one bull on a 30 acre pasture. Moved them on two weeks ago.Bawling and being pissed definitely don't necessarily mean they need hay. Mine bawl when they eat 2 foot high grass down to 1, they bawl when fall comes because the grass isn't as good anymore, they even bawl when it rains now because I tend to move them around rain events.
I refer to myself as the complaint department.
I judge my pastures by the reaction I get when I drive into the pasture. Pasture Good - they don't look up. Getting close to moving time - they look and maybe bawl a little. Time to move - They bawl and follow the truck. Overdue move - They're either standing at the gate to the next paddock bawling or running after the truck.
Drove in the field in the Mule, and they mostly ignored me. A good sign. Hope to go late in Nov without hay. 100 miles South of ATL.