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Oogie,
Most effective and the least work on your part would be to use
animal impact. If your "crew" is trained to electric fence. Crowd them
together in a small area of the pasture with the fencing and let them
pick at the thatch and trample it down. Stock density would be from
300,000 to maybe 700,000 lbs per acre equivalent. Okay, this is a huge
range, but you have to experiment here. You will have to watch the
performance of the animals and the look of the pasture to determine the
correct amount of time on each piece of ground. Maybe from 2 to 4 hours
residence time per unit of pasture area that you are "treating". If you
are still feeding hay, feed it on the ground and let them trample a bit
of this into the ground, too. I assume from your earlier posts that you
have flexible water systems, so that you can get water to this pasture.
This also results in nice, even distribution of manure.
Takes some time, a careful eye and the ability to move fences, but
does work well.
Margaret Smith
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From: graze-l-admin@witt.ac.nz on behalf of Oogie McGuire
Sent: Fri 4/4/2008 12:37 PM
To: graze-l@witt.ac.nz
Subject: Our Fescue
Well I have the answer to what happened with the taller stuff in our
pasture we had to stop grazing when snow got too deep. It flattened
out, made a thick layer of thatch and new grass isn't coming up at
all well. The fescue is doing well so far, up about 3 inches but the
rest of our stuff isn't making it above the thatch layer.
Suggestions?
--
Eugenie (Oogie) McGuire - oogiem@desertweyr.com
Desert Weyr - CMK Arabian Horses, Black Welsh Mountain Sheep and Pilgrim
Geese
http://www.desertweyr.com/
Paonia, CO USA
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