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Grazing and Range/Pasture Management

Also known as pastoralism, grazing livestock have been around for millennia, ever since domestic animals--cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, horses--have been successfully domesticated. Grazing involves the consumption of forages and range or pasture management is a tool used to control grazing activities of livestock, primarily in effort to improve the quality of the land.

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How much does it cost to feed a horse during winter if its in a pasture?

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You should feed roughly the same as in the other months if the winter weather does not drop below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. If it does however you should add and extra 1-5 pounds of hay per 5 degrees below 40 the temperature drops.

How do you prevent overgrazing?

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Understand that overgrazing is a function of time, not number of animals. If you understand that, and change your grazing management practices for the grass, not the animals, you will prevent overgrazing, and actually find you will get much more grass than you thought you could have.

Timing is everything, and bunching your animals up to mimic the bunched herds of grazing herbivores always eating and moving in response to predators. Except you and the temporary electric fence are the predators.


The time spent to graze should be much shorter than the time allowed for the various paddocks to rest. Rest time will depend on the season and the forage, and you. You can have as little as 30 days to rest or as much as 12 months or more. But don't graze the same paddocks in the same order every year, remember to change things up because you can influence plant community dynamics in each paddock if you do that; encourage diversity by being diverse with your paddock moves.


You can make things a lot better by simply changing the way you see things and changing the way you manage the system.

How many fence post 10 ft apart will you need for a 1 acre pasture?

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Specifying the area inside the fence doesn't tell you the dimensions, and the

length of fence needed to enclose it (the perimeter) depends on the shape.

-- The minimum fence that can enclose 1 acre is 740 feet (73 fence posts),

around a circle with a diameter of 236 feet.

-- The minimum fence that can enclose 1 acre with straight sides is 834 feet (83 fence posts),

around a square with 208.7-foot sides.

-- If it has straight sides but it's rectangular (not square), then the bigger the

difference is between the length and width, the more fence (and posts) you need.

For example, if the pasture is 6-ft wide and 7,260-ft long, it's exactly one acre,

the horses have to stand in single-file while they graze, and it takes 14,532 feet

of fence (1,453 fence posts) to enclose it.

Does the Clouded Leopard hunt or graze?

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The Clouded Leopard hunts. They do not graze. It is from the order "carnivore", and it hunts it's prey. That usually includes both tree dwelling, and ground dwelling mammals. The Gibbons, Macaques, Civets, Deer, Birds, Porcupines, and domesticated livestock when necessary. The Clouded Leopards that live in captivity also eat eggs, and occasionally vegetation. For more details, please see the sites listed below.

Starting with the sun what energy transformations take place when cows graze in the meadow?

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Heat and light energy gets transformed as energy for the plants to grow via the process of photosynthesis. The cows eat the grass, using the grass as an energy source to live and move around. Thus the grass, though indirectly, provides a means of kinetic energy that the cows use to move around and graze in the meadow.

Can cattle eat their own manure that is on their grazing field?

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NO. Cattle eat grass and plants, not manure.

What connections can you make between areas of grazing and herding?

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The herds would gaze at the plant life until it was almost gone.

What is food for grazing animals called?

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Decoration for our lawns, plants for grazing our livestock, food for livestock, used for art projects, basket-weaving, nature uses grasses to complete the food chain for wild animals and to provide an ecosystem for all living things, etc.

What biome is the home to the greatest variety of grazing animals on earth?

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Grassland biome has animals with grazing adaptations .

Why would you do a pasture dairy?

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Usually most animals are raised on pastures, this allows them to feed freely on grass, saving the farmer work and money. They are getting all of the needed nutrients from the grass and they are able to get the needed exercise, however some farmers will still feed them grain to help them grow.

What is the name of the sheep-grazing area?

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The region for grazing sheep and cattle in Argentina is called Las Pampas. In North America, this is called a "range" or "pasture."

Can alpacas feed on cattle pastures?

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Yes, but more so if the alpacas were raised with cattle from a young age. Alpacas and cattle will not get along well if they're not used to each other or do not tolerate each other. Alpacas are good livestock guardians, but sometimes they can also wreak havoc in the cow-herd if they're not trained or accustomed to being around cattle. Quite often selecting for cows that are very defensive towards predators is better than risking getting a livestock guardian that is not a guardian at all.

Thus, in most cases, you should be careful about putting an alpaca (or alpacas) with cattle.

What is the disease that affects humans and grazing animals?

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The disease that affects human sand grazing animals is called the plague.

What is the difference between grazing and browsing?

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Grazing is taking a nibble of everything in sight, and browsing is looking over the other guests and/or household knicknacks . It's semi-OK if done discreetly , but rude if done overtly .

How does grazing affect biodiversity?

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It is not grazing alone that affects biodiversity, but rather the management of grazing that can affect biodiversity.

Poor management–which means turning out livestock to a large area and not moving them for several weeks or months–can decrease biodiversity, causing more desirable species to be pushed out by the less desirable species, and more species that are more suited to heavy grazing (which there are few [much more are forbs or weedy species, not grasses], unlike those that are less suited to heavy grazing) to come in. Poor management invites livestock to selectively graze whatever plants they want and how often they graze a particular spot, which in turn invites overgrazing as well as undergrazing.

Good management–which involves actively managing how long livestock are grazing a particular paddock and how long the plants get rest, what time of year they graze that area, and how many animals are actively grazing at a single point in time–will do the exact opposite, in fact increase biodiversity. When cattle can graze plants that have set seed, especially if these are desirable species, they can move these seeds from one location to another with their manure. Undesirable species would still be present, but they become less of a nuisance and much less noticeable than if livestock were poorly managed.


When a whole herd of cattle or sheep can be moved around on a large piece of land every one or three days, allowing at least 30 or 40 days of rest to each paddock on that piece of land, the soil and the plants on it improves. When livestock are no longer allowed to damage riparian and wetland areas and watered in a location that takes livestock away from these sensitive areas, the biodiversity also improves and increases. But, these areas should still be grazed, just not as often as the upland, non-wetland areas.

How many pounds of pasture grass seed do you need to one acre of land?

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One first needs to know what crop is to be planted, since the amount of seed needed varies so widely. If one is planting beans, you might need as much as 50 pounds of seed per acre. If, on the other hand, you want to plant oregano, you will need only about 4 ounces of seed per acre.

Normally, a producer will decide how many acres of a crop he wishes to produce, multiply times number of plants per acre he wishes to have, factor by the seed germination percentage, then divide by the typical number of seeds per pound for that species, allowing for a small percentage extra for safety.

A pasture gradually returns to a forested state This is an example of?

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secondary sucession

I just took this quiz and got 100% and its saying the answer. In case your with CCA too and its the same quiz here r the answers to the other question:

1.

A pasture gradually returns to a forested state. This is an example of _____. (1 point)

  • (0 pts) primary succession
  • (1 pt) secondary succession
  • (0 pts) a climax community
  • (0 pts) a pioneer species
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2.

Large geographic areas that have similar climates are called _____. (1 point)

  • (0 pts) communities
  • (1 pt) biomes
  • (0 pts) ecosystems
  • (0 pts) habitats
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3.

A _____ is a biome that is characterized by warm temperatures, wet weather, and lush plant growth. (1 point)

  • (0 pts) desert
  • (0 pts) taiga
  • (0 pts) temperate deciduous forest
  • (1 pt) tropical rain forest
1 /1 point

4.

The taiga is a cold, forest region dominated by cone-bearing evergreen trees. (1 point)

  • (1 pt) true
  • (0 pts) false
1 /1 point

5.

Tropical rain forests contain abundant and diverse organisms. (1 point)

  • (1 pt) true
  • (0 pts) false
1 /1 point