Field notes
Compact Angus. Fits a three-acre rotation without eating the place. Two-day moves, leave residual.
Pasture / Small-herd cattle
Lowline Angus
Cattle · 900 lb · 0.9 AU
Forage DM
22.5 lb
2.5% of body weight / day
Move
2 d
1–3 day polywire shifts
Shelter
38 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
- 900 lb
- Animal units
- 0.9 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 22.5 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 11761 sqft for 6 head
- Shelter for that bunch
- 228 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
- 4.3 lb
- P2O5
- 1.7 lb
- K2O
- 3.5 lb
- Stay
- 2 days