Field notes
Light bird, flighty, excellent converter. Net them tight — they will find the one hole.
Pasture / Pastured layers
White Leghorn
Layer · 4 lb · 0.004 AU
Forage DM
0.128 lb
3.2% of body weight / day
Move
2 d
Egg-mobile + 48 in net, 1–3 day shifts
Shelter
1.5 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 lb
- Animal units
- 0.004 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 0.13 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 558 sqft for 50 head
- Shelter for that bunch
- 75 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
- 2.4 lb
- P2O5
- 1.9 lb
- K2O
- 1.2 lb
- Stay
- 2 days