Field notes
The small-farm ewe. No shearing. 35-inch Premier net, 164-foot rolls. Three days on, then rest the paddock. Parasite control is the move, not the drench.
Pasture / Sheep & goats
Katahdin
Hair sheep · 150 lb · 0.15 AU
Forage DM
5.25 lb
3.5000000000000004% of body weight / day
Move
3 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
- 150 lb
- Animal units
- 0.15 AU
- Forage DM / head
- 5.25 lb / day
- Paddock · 1 move on mixed grass
- 17152 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
- 3.4 lb
- P2O5
- 1.2 lb
- K2O
- 2.9 lb
- Stay
- 3 days