Field notes
The ¼-acre cow. Single polywire, 164-foot reels, move every other day. They leave a taller residual than sheep — that's the point.
Pasture / Small-herd cattle
Dexter
Cattle · 800 lb · 0.8 AU
Forage DM
20 lb
2.5% of body weight / day
Move
2 d
1–3 day polywire shifts
Shelter
35 ft²
per head, in the mobile
Fence
164 ft
Single polywire
Manure N
0.3 lb
per head per day on the paddock
Diet & paddock
- Body weight
- 800 lb
- Animal units
- 0.8 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 20 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 10454 sqft for 6 head
- Shelter for that bunch
- 210 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
- 3.8 lb
- P2O5
- 1.6 lb
- K2O
- 3.1 lb
- Stay
- 2 days