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Last year, too much rain to cut hay or plant pasture. This year, no rain to make hay or sprout pasture. Always something :!:

When I changed to 100% forage, some cattle did fine...other couldn't maintain condition without the supplements. I believe "grassfed genetics" is a matter of selecting for more efficient, better adapted cattle for your environment.

It works great. I plant rye, ryegrass and white clover and keep grass hay free choice...as the pasture matures, they quit eating the hay. Through the winter when pasture is growing slow, I time limit to a couple hours a day. As for flavor, remember what PPRM said...think wine. Flavor is...

I plant annual ryegrass and cereal rye every fall. the ryegrass is slow to start as starvin' dog said. Most of my fall grazing is the rye...which I have found to work better than oats or wheat. Rye also grows at lower temps than most anything else...but heads early in the spring...doesn't like...

You got some good teenagers!

Think about circuit of a electric fence...it starts at one terminal of the charger and ends at the other terminal. A pulse goes down the hot wire, through the animal, through the ground back to the ground rods, and ends at the ground terminal. The physical characteristics and moisture content of...

As long as your hot wire isn't grounding, you should be using very little current and a good auto battery should last a few weeks...been awhile since I used a set up like that. Keep a check on the battery voltage...when it starts dropping off, swap the batteries. You can also tell when the...

Down here dairy quality in winter would be a mix of cool season annuals (rye, ryegrass, oats, wheat...) and legumes (white, red, crimson clovers). In spring/early summer, warm season perennials work until temperatures get up and these lignify. White clover doesn't lignify, but will need...

Rough rule of thumb... carcass weight is about 60% of live weight meat weight is about 60% of carcass weight This will put you in the ball park with your figures...regardless of where they are raised or what they are fed. Good beef animals can/will be slightly above...dairy type and cows...

Run up to CO. and buy a couple of bulls(and maybe a few females) from Dale Lasater at their annual sell Sept. 16. Made a big difference in my herd. More later...

Short answer, it depends on what you feed them. On dairy quality pasture from birth to slaughter, you can equal feedlot time or very close (probably with a little less fat...everyone knows starch makes fat). BUT, as Ben and PC said, the genetics have to be right.

I agree with both of you...no substitute for experience. I think Jim has a new book out.

In that case, absolutely no problem. The chances of a broken conductor causing a "dead" section are cut in half, if not eliminated. Shorts will have the same effect...that's why they make checkers that will point you toward the short.

I'm not sure, but I don't think it would be a good idea. There would be the chance of the electric pulse from one charger back-feeding through the other and causing problems. There may be enough resistance in the wire that this wouldn't be a problem. If you wanted to experiment, hook the ground...

Send them to eatwild.com or localharvest.org

Cows are not going to eat around their manure unless they are starving...they will eat the bark off of trees first. What you have is a case of over grazing. If there is mature grass that isn't being grazed that isn't next to manure piles, then you're not also over stocked. Try what Texan and PC...

Urea is going to favor grass, not clover.

I'm almost exclusively pond water.

90F is cool here in the summer!!!! Come on down, burnt...you can experience a Mississippi sauna...quarter inch mid-day shower followed by +100F in the shade. You can literally see the steam rising!!!!! :o :shock: