Posted by paul on November 16, 2009 at 17:07:47 from (76.77.197.242):
In Reply to: OT: Cow per acre posted by JayinNY on November 16, 2009 at 16:38:28:
As you will be told, it depends on the amount of grass you can grow, which depends on the moisture, soils, and climate you are in.
Rotational grazing will really help you out. Just 2 pastures won't quite do as well.
Where you are at maybe you can figure 1 to 2 head per acre of pasture, but there are times that will be too many and you will need to add some feed from somewhere. In parts of late spring you will end up with more grass than they can eat, but in late summer as it gets dry & hot & grasses go dormant - then you will run out of grazing. So 1 per acre won't be enough in late spring; but 2 per acre in late summer will be way too many.....
Having 4 or more pastures to rotate through will help you to balance things, and allow you to cut one for hay if it is a good grass year - save up for when you have a bad grass year.
Having 24 pastures really lets you mob graze, intensively graze, and make the _most_ use of your pastures. But it takes time to get there, but you might want to plan your pastures & watering for something along those lines down the road.
Some want to do all grass beef, others want to use a bit of grain all the time, kinda depends where you want to go with that part of it.
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