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repairing after winter feeding

  • 23-02-2011 9:35am
    #1
    jag con
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    Hi i have a 4 acre field that i am going to use this year for a couple of weanlings hope to put them on it in early April. The field has a few sucklers and calfs on it during the winter and are coming off in the next week or two. So the field is a little bare of grass and a bit poached so im thinking of running a chain harrrow on it with the quad or maybe a roller and then a little fertilizer im hoping to put the few weanlings 3-4 on it im early to mid April.

    i kept an eye on the field last winter and again the sucklers were on it for the winter and taken off in March and then a cut of silage was taken off it during the summer

    Any advice on what im thinking of doing

    JC


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  • #2
    Bizzum
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    jag con wrote: »
    Hi i have a 4 acre field that i am going to use this year for a couple of weanlings hope to put them on it in early April. The field has a few sucklers and calfs on it during the winter and are coming off in the next week or two. So the field is a little bare of grass and a bit poached so im thinking of running a chain harrrow on it with the quad or maybe a roller and then a little fertilizer im hoping to put the few weanlings 3-4 on it im early to mid April.

    i kept an eye on the field last winter and again the sucklers were on it for the winter and taken off in March and then a cut of silage was taken off it during the summer

    Any advice on what im thinking of doing

    JC

    Sounds like a good plan to me. If the soil type is very heavy, the roller sometimes pans it a bit much and it can compact on you. If this is the case maybe a handfull of grass seed with the fert, and a light roll when the gress comes on a bit. Depending on the damage, hay seed may not even be required.


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