Field notes
Stockier than Kiko. Keep them moving or the browse line climbs. Don't leave them on a paddock past four days in summer.
Pasture / Sheep & goats
Boer
Meat goat · 160 lb · 0.16 AU
Forage DM
4.8 lb
3% of body weight / day
Move
4 d
3–5 day paddock shifts
Shelter
16 ft²
per head, in the mobile
Fence
164 ft
35 in sheep/goat net
Manure N
0 lb
per head per day on the paddock
Diet & paddock
- Body weight
- 160 lb
- Animal units
- 0.16 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 4.8 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 20909 sqft for 25 head
- Shelter for that bunch
- 400 sqft
Fence & recovery
- Fence
- 35 in sheep/goat 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 · 25 head
- N
- 4.2 lb
- P2O5
- 1.5 lb
- K2O
- 3.6 lb
- Stay
- 4 days