Grazing 2021

Yea we used it in our sucklers too, it was never too bad, the magnesium pump was enough even in wet weather, we used to have to add iodine to the magnesium as well. the pump is a great job. We used to get a lot of chills in the calve until we put the iodine through the pump

Was it the dispenser in a gallon jar in the water trough you used?

Heifers in, cows in today and tonight prob tomorrow as well, some amount of rain falling since 4 this morning. I think someone measuring nearby had it over 50mm so far and still at it.

Wet, cows have to walk out to the parlour anyway and take so long to walk down they'd be wet any wet day. Have never had any problems in the shed really touch wood.

I have plenty grass at the moment and ground conditions are still very good,hope to leave them out till the end of November

My grass is gone a bit strong if this is not grazed down tight will this effect quality next spring? They are happy away on it and grazing it well so far so hopefully they will skin it,

I have about ten acres like that this year. I am strip grazing most of it. Something I am not mad about but I am getting good clean outs so farm. Grass will be a week to ten days later next spring but quality will be ok. As well as I graze silage paddocks in the spring it will sort any issue. There may be 1-2 acres of the ten there is an issue with but most will be ok.

Correct pH is helpful as well.

How would correct ph sort this problem? If possible would you mind uploading a photo of what you are grazing?

would type of weight gain would you be exspecting on good grass this time of year?

Why cant you strip graze, is ground condititions not good enough

The problem I'm having is that thegrass is lying down and rotting the butt, if it's not grazed soon it'll all rot.

Land is too wet here to drive on. topping not an option

Getting it well grazed out with sheep but not a pretty sight

We've only a couple of sheep here, not enough to graze down tightly. The grass growth is unreal, but the ground just can't carry them. With the dark nights coming in now I think our cattle will be heading in next week.

Cattle are usually in early - mid October here. Last year we had some out wandering about until mid December, but the bulk of them were in. We've another few fields around the sheds we could move them to, but depending on the weather we might risk them on it for a few days until we can get them in dry.

We are lightly stocked this year so we have sufficient buffer of silage and slurry storage. We all work off the farm here, so although we'd prefer them out, it is handy at this time of year to have them in. This year is has been a bit of an outlier in terms of grass growth late in the season so we have a couple of fields still having strong grass.

Rain here has forced housed over half the stock. Put them in yesterday ahead of last night's rain. Like Brian I have 3 paddocks I would like to graze but ground conditions are very tricky. Hard to see much drying from now on but will graze out with calves. I'm in a high rainfall area that gets between 1100- 1200mm annually. Well behind this year, so I think we will have a good bit of rain to fall over the winter

Just left with bucket fed calves and store heifers out.

Probably will have the heifers housed this coming week. Calves will be probably housed in 10-14 days. They are getting hay out at the moment with their bit of meal. Pull out 5 of the lighter ones and housed them yesterday.

Has been a good year overall for grass, but a bit tricky managing for past 2 months, in a good way

Photos above sorry about the finger I'm the way never looked at them until now.

Graze out is poor here at present. Only 12 in the bunch and hard to limit area at start of the paddock. I have had heavier covers than this but have got better graze out on them. This is a slightly heavy paddock as you get further into it.

Last of the photos are if a paddock grazed out about two weeks ago. It was not as heavy as the present one.. It's s paddock that is usually closed for silage. Will be grazed in late March.

Jezzz lads stop depressing me there with your nice photos, my final photo would be pure mud and slop.

Believe me it’s not always like this! It’s just an exceptional year

Yeah after today it’s meant to pick up again for the week,if the weather comes anyway right I should get all of November out hopefully

Do not regraze it you will need that field in March for grazing. I start closing about October 7th I will have 50% of the farm closed by middle of the week. I will concentrate on getting getting some lighter covers grazed out to up closed area.

All in this morning, they would have drowned standing up this afternoon, exceptional driving rain. Will try them out again if weather is any way reasonable.

Small prataies left in the ridge are a few inches above ground now

Your land looks to be dry land. While fields closed a month ago ( before the 7th October are too early to close everything from that on should not be regrazed. Normally I use 7th October but this year I am going back to Oct1st. Heavy covers grazed over the last 2-3 weeks will be slow to recover over the winter.

You have land capable of being grazed in late February if it is anyway dry. I have been tempted to leave covers like that. I definitely would leave all covers after 7th October especially with the way fertilizer is going to be in price

I got milking cows yesterday for a few hours just about in one of my drier paddocks ,no damage so might chance 4 hours grazing today

Weather has taken an upturn here too. Looks like we might get another week at least out of it. The ground is holding the water though so getting it ate down clean is a problem. Might keep out some of the lighter cattle for longer.

At what stage should you take them off the ground for the winter so as not to screw yourself in the spring? Our cattle start going out in April.

Sheep are a great job for cleaning the ground over the winter. Unfortunately it's not an option for me as there are too many household dogs in the area

If you were going by the book it needs a hundred days , but if you're lowly stocked it won't make much difference if you don't rest a percentage of your land long enough.

If you let someone in make sure to tell them they have to strip it when you say,

Have you huch available, land for sheep grazing is worth €1/week per ewe.

Donedeal usually ahve lots looking for sheep grazing

https://www.donedeal.ie/farming?words=sheep%20grazing