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Will spreading fresh horse manure in a grazing pasture harmful?
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∙ 12y ago
No if you put a ligh layer over the pasture then no, this is actually extremly benificial to the grass (for horse manure is great fertilizer).
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How do you fertilize with cow manure?
If you are referring to potted plants, gardens or flower beds, then the manure needs to be mixed in with soil before adding it to your plants. Since cattle manure is quite strong, you need to add at least twice as much soil as there is manure. Then put the mixture in the pot with the plant, if you are putting potted plants, or if you are wanting to fertilize your garden, simply spread it out on the garden them work it in with the garden tiller. It's best to have a tractor-powered tiller to work the manure into the soil even better before planting. Let the weeds come up, then till again, and then go ahead and plant your garden. If you are fertilizing perennials or your flowerbeds, simply throw the manure-soil mix over the plants so that you make a layer of it about an inch thick. You could water if you want, but some people like to let Nature take care of that. If you are referring to fertilizing fields or pastures, you need to get a big manure spreader and a tractor with a good front-end loader to load up the spreader before taking it out on the field and spreading the manure on there. You just need to make rows of it, up and down the field, as you go. Or, you could hire someone or a company to do it for you. Manure spreading is a big job, and doesn't end with just spreading it on the fields: it needs to be worked in with a disc or cultivator. You don't have to do that with pastures. Usually cattle grazing has enough manure on it, but rotational or MIG grazing allows for more denser manure spreading than continuous grazing. With continuous grazing it is a good idea to take the manure that has accumulated from the pens where cattle are housed in the winter (or on a feedlot) and spread it out on the pasture. Nature will take care of the rest, letting the grasses and microbes in the soil to break down the manure and convert it into soil and nutrient for the grasses.
What is in goat manure?
Digested pasture - reconstituted grass.
Can horses eat the grass in the field after spreading manure?
No because they would be manure
When ah rancher puts cattle in a pasture what will happen to the amount of grass in it?
In the short-term, because of the activity of grazing, the amount of grass decreases. When these cattle are removed, forage biomass will increase back to normal pre-grazing levels, or may increase because of the manure and trampling activity that encourages regrowth of vegetation.
What type of crop improve soil and soil fertility?
Permanent hay or pasture "crops". Pasture is the most effective way of improving soil and soil fertility because of the animal manure that is incorporated into the soil to help plants grow. But the most important part of improving soil is the way pastures are grazed. Managed Intensive Grazing is the best way to improve soil and soil fertility on a more even distribution of grazing practices.
What is the purpose of a manure spreader?
A manure spreader does exactly what its name implies it does, it spreads manure. It is most useful in larger fields, where spreading manure by hand is not feasible.
Can cattle eat their own manure that is on their grazing field?
NO. Cattle eat grass and plants, not manure.
Is it better to slash long winter grass before grazing cattle?
Not if you want them to do some stockpile grazing. Stockpile grazing is great to use during the early parts of spring when the grasses haven't quite come up yet. It helps put more manure on the pasture for the grasses to use, plus it eliminates most of the cover that might hinder the grass coming up. Of course, this all depends on where you live. If you are in an area where you don't get much snow--if any--and have long, dead, winter grass in the pasture you need to get rid of, you could mow it a bit, or graze your cows on it and let the cows get rid of it for you.
Is grazing cattle sensible?
Yes, definitely. Grazing cattle is very sensible because it requires much less fuel and machinery time to harvest the forage and deposit manure on the land than it would to harvest the forage and then spread the manure on the pasture.Cattle are very useful for consuming forage in areas where it's impractical to use machinery for getting the job done. These range from native rangelands to crop fields with crop down that are too soft to be able to get large machinery in to get the crop off. Cattle also deposit manure on the lands that need it, and they'll literally transport seeds (legumes especially, and even undesirable weed seeds) from one pasture to another.As large grazing herbivores, cattle, especially if managed properly, provide the necessary hoof action, and defoliation that plants need to grow and be productive. Proper grazing practices promote good soil health, biodiversity, increase in organic matter, etc. But proper grazing practices mean knowing timing of how long to graze and how long to let the plants to rest before next grazing. It also means knowing how much grass you have in your pasture in terms of pounds of forage per acre, in order to understand the stocking rate (as in animal unit days or months per acre) of your pasture.You can't have sensible grazing practices in order to make grazing cattle sensible.
How have humans influenced the possible effects that a cow on its environment?
By the way they choose to raise that cow. A cow has a much more positive effect on the environment if she is raised as natural as is possible: like her ancestors the Aurochs lived, but with the use of managed grazing practices. A cow allowed to live/graze on pasture does much more good because her manure is going back into the soil to help plants grow and those plants help sequester (bring in) carbon from the atmosphere from the natural gases like methane and carbon dioxide and keep it there, essentially where it belongs. A cow has a negative effect on the environment if she is kept in totally unnatural conditions, such as inside of a man-made structure where she doesn't have much room to move around and feed and water are brought to her. Her manure is piled up, which when moved onto the fields releases vasts quantities of methane and carbon dioxide. Fields have to be tilled to be able to grow crops again, and crops and hay production really "mine" the soil of its nutrients. Cows grazing in those fields on residue or in the pasture will put back more nutrients than will spreading manure from lagoons or manure piles will...supposedly.
Why does grass wither and die if too much artificial fertiliser is spread on pasture in terms of osmosis?
The excessive use of artificial fertilizers are harmful for plants. The capacity of the plant growth is reduced. The use of manure which is a natural fertilizer helps in good growth of plants.
What are cows used for?
Meat, milk, draft work, manure, calf production and keeping the grass down in a field or pasture.
