Grazing and Range/Pasture Management

Bale grazing, similar to swath grazing, is a winter grazing method designed to keep the cows on pasture or on the field and out of the drylot for as long as possible. Bales of straw or hay are used in this grazing practice, and set out so that the cows have access to a certain amount of bales for a certain amount of time. Electrical fencing, like with swath grazing, is used to minimize waste and only allow the cows to clean up what they are given. Bale grazing can be used throughout winter, since the cows have easier access to the bales in deep snow than they would with swaths.

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A lot. In a 24 hour period a horse can spend up 20 hours a day grazing. They sleep and doze a little and some time is spent on horse play but their main goal in life is to eat. It must work OK because as a species horses have been around for millions of years in one form or another.

A grazing circuit refers to a system used in livestock management where animals are rotated through different pastures or grazing areas. This method helps maintain pasture health by preventing overgrazing, allowing vegetation to recover and promoting biodiversity. Grazing circuits can improve soil quality and reduce the need for chemical fertilizers while optimizing forage use for livestock. Overall, it supports sustainable agricultural practices.

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This varies between continents, countries, seasons, and climate. Rangelands are found not just in North America, but also in South America, Africa, Europe, Asia.

Yes, mine do all the time. You may not notice it if they do, but they do.

I had this problem with my old horse. We used to take a bucket with pony nuts or a treat or a carrot with us this normally worked.

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Their growth points are at the base of the plant (instead of at the top like with many trees and forbs), and many grasses are what are called "bunch grasses" which means they form from tillers that sprout from such growth points. Additionally, their ability to grow in favourable conditions that allows enough light, nutrient, litter removal and reduced competition will help them to survive and even propogate more of themselves. However, not all grasses can survive with continuous grazing. For example, rough fescue is a grass that will not survive if continuously grazed, unlike with bluegrasses, wheatgrasses, and brome-grass species. Under continuous grazing pressure, rough fescue is what is called a "decreaser." All other grasses mentioned are called "increasers."

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If you mean why don't you see them, there are 2 reasons.

One is that goats HATE to ge wet. They will always choose cover than to get wet.

Sheep, on the other hand, don't care. Maybe the afrmer has 2 pastures, and they are in the "other" one

Pasture is the most least cost and least labour intensive way of feeding cattle. Pasture is the most natural way possible that cattle can harvest grass themselves without needed human intervention. Pasture would simply become a hay field if humans decided to cut and gather it to feed it to the cattle. Making hay or silage costs more in fuel, fertilizer and labour than having the cattle out grazing the feild themselves. Hay should and only should be made if periods during the year are expected to come that will prevent any further grazing by your herd of cattle. Otherwise grazing pastures, mind you in a way that does not encourage overgrazing, is THE best way to feed cattle ad libitum.

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Horses are usually considered pets, whereas cattle are normally not. I keep my horse in a separate pasture because he requires a little grain daily and higher quality hay. My cows get grain only once a week and get the lesser quality hay. What it all boils down to is the horse gets his own pasture so he wont have to compete with the cows for food.

Moss is usually the result of the lack of animal impact. You need to try lots of animals in a small space to get soil disturbance and at the same time it will be fertilized also by the animals. It can also be caused by too much rest.

Use marginal lands year after year with modest environmental damage.

The Pastures of Heaven is a novel about a "curse" basically flowing through a beautiful valley, the Pastures of Heaven. The Munroe family moves into a home which is joking (and secretly seriously) believed to be cursed; as the family moves in, Mr. Munroe believes he must be cursed to have had so many business ventures fail. But when the Munroes move in, all seems to go well. It's as if the curse is gone; Munroe jokes his curse must have gotten into a fight with the curse on the house and they essentially canceled each other out. The town gossip however, remarks maybe they instead mated like two snakes and will produce lots of little babies. This leads into the rest of the novel as a reader can trace the signs of a curse through every other chapter in the book. Each chapter deals with a different family or person in the valley, and each one has terrible luck in some way-- people die, homes destroyed, several people forced out of the valley (and on that note, there are Garden of Eden undertones throughout the book as well to watch for), etc-- all because of the curse which Munroe has brought-- and Munroe has contact with each of these people/families when the bad luck hits.

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The best way to learn about rotational grazing is by visiting various websites that have information on rotational grazing and visit local farms and ranches that have implemented rotational grazing into their management scheme for better utilizing and improving pasture productivity.

Several links below are great websites to visit to begin to familiarize yourself with rotational grazing, how it works, what you can do with it, and some of what the benefits and implications are that is associated with it. Please visit these links in the Related links section of this question.

Pasture development is typically a lengthy process that involves either improving the quality of the pasture, or creating a pasture for livestock by seeding perennial forages and building a fence-line. The former tends to be a longer process than the latter, depending on how poor shape the pasture is in when the development process begins.

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no hard fealings just move them away from each other