Field notes
Workhorse. 80 birds in a 10×12 floorless tractor, pulled every morning onto a fresh strip. They live on feed — the grass is salad and sanitation, not the ration. If the strip is only the tractor footprint, the stand will be hammered.
Pasture / Pastured broilers
Cornish Cross
Broiler · 5 lb · 0.005 AU
Forage DM
0.16 lb
3.2% of body weight / day
Move
1 d
Daily tractor pull
Shelter
1.5 ft²
per head, in the mobile
Fence
Tractor
Floorless tractor — no net
Manure N
0 lb
per head per day on the paddock
Diet & paddock
- Body weight
- 5 lb
- Animal units
- 0.005 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 0.16 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 558 sqft for 80 head
- Shelter for that bunch
- 120 sqft
Fence & recovery
- Fence
- Floorless tractor — no net
- Roll length
- 164 ft
- Spring rest on mixed grass
- 24 days
- Summer rest on mixed grass
- 36 days
- Stand DM · mixed grass
- 2000 lb / acre
Manure this graze · 80 head
- N
- 1.8 lb
- P2O5
- 1.3 lb
- K2O
- 1 lb
- Stay
- 1 day