What Rotational Mob Grazing Does For Your Pastures! Here's The Results!

We should how moving the cows everyday as improved our pastures drastically over the past 6 months.

[leelindsay]

Have you looked into the Jobe mega flow valve for watering? Apparently you can fit it into your 55 gallon half bucket...which means you might not need the second bucket.

[ubuntunewb]

I haven't done cows yet, but when I ran my rabbits in tractors on pasture, dramatic improvement, it's just amazing what concentrated animal grazing and daily moves does for the land. I'm planning to expand into other pasture adventures but need to resolve the property fencing first to keep the neighbors dogs.

[luiszamora]

Come on cow cow! You know what it takes to care for your cows and Jordan so keep up the good work👍🇺🇸👍

[TS-vrof]

1:11 To estimate available dry matter per acre here are the basics. from a birds eye view rate your pasture grass density "Good" ( 90%+ covered, 10% bare ground), "Fair" (80%cover) "Poor" (70% or less cover). Estimate how tall on average the grass is in that area(tallest leaf on the plants, not including the seed head). On "Good" pasture multiply the average grass height by 300lbs per inch. On "Fair" Ground multiply by 200 lbs per inch. On "Poor" ground multiply by 100 lbs per acre inch. In your best pasture it's looking like 12 inch average height with "Good" Stand density. That means 12 x 300 = 3, 600 lbs dry matter per acre. While your grasses are still growing you should only take 50% of your grass, That would mean 1, 800 lbs per acre of forage dry matter that is available to the cows. To estimate how much dry matter your cows need to eat and keep good condition you multiply 3% (up to 3.5% depending on your goals with the cattle) by your lbs of animal units( 1 AU = 1000 lbs). since you have some young cows and steers I'd say each animal would only by .8- .9 AU each. 900 lb x 11= 9, 900 lbs. I'd round up to 10, 000 lbs for ease of mental math. 10, 000 x 3% = 300 lbs ( x 3.5% = 350 lbs ) per day of needed forage dry matter. So on that good pasture using take half leave half during the active growing season you divide 1, 800 lbs by 300 lbs = 6 days of feed. Animal performance is still best when you can move daily so you could have 6 paddocks per acre on that really good pasture. Imagine when the whole farm gets this productive and better, pretty exciting to think of the possibilities. you are in a good warm and wet area, so I could definitely see your farm getting down to 1 acre per animal.

[jennyschneider]

Just discovered your channel. Very interesting. So how many animals/paddock? How long does the paddock rest? I may be poorly educated in this area... so please excuse my questions if they’re ignorant... but I thought the nutrients in the grass went to the roots in the summer so grass loses its nutrition in the winter? Is that not true? Do you think this would work for horses as well? Do you have a book or resource you suggest as a starter book? Thanks. Enjoy the videos. We’re in East Texas too.

[TheJakeRobinson]

how many cows and what's the smallest size paddock have you put them in with good results? I'm about to start on a similar size farm (30ish grazable acres) cheers

[CynBrown]

Do you do any minerals for your cows? If not do you plan to in the future?

[ubuntunewb]

I keep hearing your energizer popping in the cow these videos. Is something causing it to ground or pop?

[jennyschneider]

Gonna have to look up what you’re doing with the chickens.