I last moved the lead wire for my older cow group on Wed 5/22 as pictured in my "back to the old routine" post below. Today i opened another patch of grass for that same group. So they had 3 days on that Wed patch.

Today I let them in to the next patch but closed the wire again behind them and opened up a different route to water up ahead. This keeps them from mucking up the paddock behind them and opens a less muddy path to water. The grazed section will now have about 30 days to recover and should come back strong despite the near 100% useage of available forage. I'm trying to illustrate the simple process for rhose not familiar with rotational grazing.

Here are a couple pictures from today. I generally only have to do anything with this group every third day. My cows should be making good milk on this forage to get those May calves growing.

(IMG010 Very good utilization of forage - they eat everything including a few weeds in the mix 052519 (full).jpg)

(IMG011 A mix of grasses with red clover as the legume underneath 052519 (full).jpg)

(IMG012 A mix of grasses with red clover as the legume underneath 052519 (full).jpg)

IMG010 Very good utilization of forage - they eat everything including a few weeds in the mix 052519 (full).jpg (176KB - 89 downloads)

IMG011 A mix of grasses with red clover as the legume underneath 052519 (full).jpg (181KB - 75 downloads)

IMG012 A mix of grasses with red clover as the legume underneath 052519 (full).jpg (203KB - 77 downloads)