repairing after winter feeding

jag con · 23-02-2011 09:35AM #1

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

Bizzum · 23-02-2011 03:27PM

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.

repairing after winter feeding

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