Field notes
Production brown. Egg-mobile for the night, Premier 1 48-inch net for the day yard. Move the net every other day or the run goes bare and the eggs get dirty.
Pasture / Pastured layers
ISA Brown
Layer · 4.5 lb · 0.0045 AU
Forage DM
0.135 lb
3% of body weight / day
Move
2 d
Egg-mobile + 48 in net, 1–3 day shifts
Shelter
1.8 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
- 4.5 lb
- Animal units
- 0.0045 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 0.14 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 588 sqft for 50 head
- Shelter for that bunch
- 90 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
- 2.8 lb
- P2O5
- 2.2 lb
- K2O
- 1.4 lb
- Stay
- 2 days