Posted by rrlund on January 30, 2010 at 07:25:19 from (216.46.212.193):
In Reply to: Grazing- Who does it? posted by Don-Wi on January 29, 2010 at 19:44:29:
When I think of all the hours that I wasted in my life chopping feed for the cows with a flail chopper,I could cry. The last 5 years or so that I milked I rotational grazed 50 cows on about 36 acres. I had it set up with single strand smooth electric wire in 30 paddocks so I didn't have to move fence every day. When I'd go out to get the cows every morning,I'd just open up the next pasture. When the weather got dry,I'd still have to chop one load for them at night,but it beat the heck out of twice a day,every day. It got them on green feed 3 weeks sooner in the spring too,so that cut feed use and got them up on milk that much sooner. In 2001,I was starting to plan the switch to beef cows,so I fenced 2 forties with 5 strands of barbed wire perimiter fence,then split them both into 4 pastures with 4 strand cross fences. Depending on the weather,I can run 36-40 cow calf pairs on each 40 for the whole season. If you wise up and go ahead with it,you and your dad will be slapping yourself right in the forehead and asking yourself why you didn't do it 20 years ago. And I'm right across the lake from you,here in Michigan,so the growing season is about the same.
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