Grazing tall grass with sheep

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Clipping or harvesting hay in pastures that are getting ahead of the flock is often considered a best practice to provide high quality forage for grazing sheep. But sometimes you can alter grazing management and get good performance out of very ripe forage by allowing sheep to graze selectively.
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This looks great! Great residual on the previous paddock, and great density on the current paddock.

trentcharles
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Tighten up your paddock size for more preasure. We are running 17 head in two nets like yours, they are doing well with daily moves

georgeheller
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Afternoon Bill. Getting around to watching some of your videos. Thanks for commenting an conversation on my post the other day. How long are those pads from the treeline to back behind you? Or maybe I should say how many different nets you got set in this pad? An thank you

brettpayton
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Residual looks great. I quit clipping seed heads. I haven't clipped anything, but new idle fields in two years. There's usually plenty undergrowth in one of our seeded out pastures if I keep them moving, and my sheep like eating seed heads. I think clipping can be an expensive substitute for increasing stocking rates, and often is a waste of fuel and time. Did your skinny ewe with the big lamb recover ok? I cull ewes for over producing milk occasionally if they keep putting all their condition into their lambs and look poor going into fall.

swamp-yankee
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Have you noticed any ticks in that taller grass??

DOEBOY
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My sheep will not eat seed heads or. Room sedge unless it is very new spring growth thanks for posting

WonbyGrace
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little late, but do you remember how many head and what the size of the paddock was?

aldfasdokf
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I'm 64 and my partner and I want to do this along with chickens symbiotically

muchimi