Field notes
One animal unit. Same polywire program as Dexter, just a bigger bite. Don't set a five-day paddock on a summer slump.
Pasture / Small-herd cattle
American Devon
Cattle · 1000 lb · 1 AU
Forage DM
25 lb
2.5% of body weight / day
Move
2 d
1–3 day polywire shifts
Shelter
40 ft²
per head, in the mobile
Fence
164 ft
Single polywire
Manure N
0.4 lb
per head per day on the paddock
Diet & paddock
- Body weight
- 1000 lb
- Animal units
- 1 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 25 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 13068 sqft for 6 head
- Shelter for that bunch
- 240 sqft
Fence & recovery
- Fence
- Single polywire
- 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 · 6 head
- N
- 4.8 lb
- P2O5
- 1.9 lb
- K2O
- 3.8 lb
- Stay
- 2 days