Grazing and Range/Pasture Management

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.

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.

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.

NO. Cattle eat grass and plants, not manure.

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

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.

Grassland biome has animals with grazing adaptations .

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.

Its Patagonia.

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

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.

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

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 .

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.

Savannas, large open areas.

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A combination of many factors, including: Sunlight, adequate soil temperature, soil microbes, moisture, and disturbance. Disturbance is particularly needed to encourage grass growth before the grass has had a chance to put up a seed head and then go into dormancy.

Actually, the microbes are the key to this question. The rumen and reticulum are just the holding vats of where the fodder from the pasture are digested and provides the mechanical form of digestion, and fermentation is the chemical process that is created by the microbes in the rumen in an anaerobic environment. Put all these together and you have your answer.

Ruminants rely on these microbes to break down the plant matter and release the nutrients from these plants--as well as synthesize their own, like Vitamin B12--in order to get the necessary energy, protein, vitamins and minerals for maintaining body function and meet other physiological requirements like growth, lactation and reproduction. These microbes synthesize an enzyme called cellulase which is designed to break down cellulose, an organic compound found in all plants (and is what gives all plants their structure and support) in order to accomplish this. The anaerobic environment is created when these microbes release carbon dioxide, methane and other organic gaseous or liquid compounds, and these gases need to be released regularly via eructation (or burping). A cow will burp once every minute of every day.

The microbes can't completely break down plant matter, though, so when the cow has eaten her fill, she regurgitates a bolus of partly digested digesta and rechews it, her saliva and chewing actions further breaking it down before swallowing and bringing up another bolus to chew again. This is called "chewing the cud." Her saliva does not have the enzyme to break down starch, but it does act as a buffer to maintain the pH (or acidity) level neutral in the rumen. A cow can easily produce 50 gallons of saliva per day.

The reticulum acts as part of the digestion process, acting as a storage place for foreign objects, and "readying" a part of the digesta from the rumen to be regurgitated and rechewed as cud. However, fermentation also takes place in this stomach chamber, but not nearly as much as in the rumen. (Note: if someone tells you that the rumen is a "storage" area, this isn't entirely true. An organ doesn't act as a storage area if something is constantly being done to the objects inside. The rumen is a home for millions of bacteria, fungi and protozoa, and is very much an ecological environment where these tiny organisms live and die.) The reticulum is known as the "hardware stomach."

Other organs not mentioned are just as important with ruminant digestion. After the plant matter has been digested, fermented, rechewed and fermented again enough, it goes to the third forestomach, called the omasum. Here water is removed from the many folds in this stomach chamber. From there, it moves into the abomasum, or the true stomach of the ruminant animal. The abomasum acts and secretes stomach acid and enzymes very much like our stomachs do. The rest of the digestion process follows like any other mammal.

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This is not a state issue but a county regulation. You can find out what is permitable by visiting your county court house. Look for the county code that pertains to horses. Or you can try online. At the very least there will be contact info where you can find the right person to answer all your questions.

As far as stocking rate is concerned, which is a little different from the above paragraph, you need to check with your local agricultural extension office to see how many horses you can stock per acre (or how many acres is needed per horse) for your farm or acreage.

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