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Winter grazing

  • 04-09-2016 5:26pm
    #1
    Lanark
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    How many sheep would u b able to winter per acre?


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  • #2
    rangler1
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    Lanark wrote: »
    How many sheep would u b able to winter per acre?

    If you were depending on the amount of grass that grows in the midlands here between mid december and mid march, you'd be lucky if 1 to the acre had enough to eat.


  • #3
    Siamsa Sessions
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    rangler1 wrote: »
    If you were depending on the amount of grass that grows in the midlands here between mid december and mid march, you'd be lucky if 1 to the acre had enough to eat.

    Don't quote me but I think I remember reading in a Teagasc publication that you can out-winter ewes but it "costs" you a 25% reduction in the number of ewes you can carry overall.

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  • #4
    rangler1
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    Siamsa Sessions wrote: »
    Don't quote me but I think I remember reading in a Teagasc publication that you can out-winter ewes but it "costs" you a 25% reduction in the number of ewes you can carry overall.

    Spread Nitrogen in september and close land till december and strip graze it then,i did it a few years, I could feed 150 ewes for a month on five acres but in heavy land it destroys the ryegrasses.
    For ewes to milk and lambs to thrive you need rygrasses, so its not sustainable....at least with me anyway.
    Grass doesn't grow enough in the winter so it depends on whatever grass you save up, be lovely just to leave them out though


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