Field notes
Dual-purpose. Heavier on the sod. Give them three days, not two, or they'll scratch the paddock to dust.
Pasture / Pastured layers
Black Australorp
Layer · 6 lb · 0.006 AU
Forage DM
0.18 lb
3% of body weight / day
Move
3 d
Egg-mobile + 48 in net, 2–3 day shifts
Shelter
2 ft²
per head, in the mobile
Fence
164 ft
48 in poultry net
Manure N
0 lb
per head per day on the paddock
Diet & paddock
- Body weight
- 6 lb
- Animal units
- 0.006 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 0.18 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 1176 sqft for 50 head
- Shelter for that bunch
- 100 sqft
Fence & recovery
- Fence
- 48 in poultry 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 · 50 head
- N
- 4.8 lb
- P2O5
- 3.6 lb
- K2O
- 2.4 lb
- Stay
- 3 days