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  • 23-04-2012 1:58pm
    #1
    danpaddyandy
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭


    hey im thinking of paddocking off 2 15 acre and 2 12 acre fields and theyre all fairly square.. im just wondering would breaking them into 4 be sufficient in the future with 70 sucklers...would 3 to 4 acre paddocks last that many cattle 3 or 4 days i know it depends on growth and quality but just a guide would be great..its good dry land say

    also would 70 acres be big enough for 70 sucklers and they re young till weaning stage

    thanks


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  • #2
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    danpaddyandy wrote: »
    hey im thinking of paddocking off 2 15 acre and 2 12 acre fields and theyre all fairly square.. im just wondering would breaking them into 4 be sufficient in the future with 70 sucklers...would 3 to 4 acre paddocks last that many cattle 3 or 4 days i know it depends on growth and quality but just a guide would be great..its good dry land say

    also would 70 acres be big enough for 70 sucklers and they re young till weaning stage

    thanks

    I say it would be you can always use tempory fence reels and pigtail post for a year. no I do not think 4 acres would last 70 sucklers for 4 days even with good dry land am guessing at over 2 acres a day at height of growing season and more at shoulders
    If you are not cutting silage and useing it as grazing platform you will be ok, however if you are doing winter forage as well you equivlent stoking rate is 2.5 LU/HA, You would want to be fairly effecient you would be up there with the Derrypatrick herd


  • #3
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    I asked the ag adviser how much land ran well (not excessively) to run 70 sucklers for weanlings. ideally i was told 85 acres. seems possible enough on resonable ground. theres a lad near me has three farms though and reckons that one he has in louth would carry twice the animals than his home place on the same acreage.


  • #4
    danpaddyandy
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭danpaddyandy


    cheers lads ya i was thinking 70 acres would be tight with 70 sucklers and replacements. that 70 acres included the silage as well for the moment but when i build up to over 50 i will probably have to rent 15-20 acres for silage/replacements with all the bad weather at the moment its hard to tell if the paddock systems are as great as everybody says..think ill temporary fence it for few years


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