Category: Today’s Paddock

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Today’s Paddock (3-21-23)

This is a fun blog series where we show you exactly the paddock that our animals are enjoying on a particular day. All of our animals are raised in their natural environment and the common denominator among them all is PASTURE ROTATION! So take a look through these blog posts to see where the animals find themselves on a given day.

Our layer flocks have flown the coop! Not really…but they did get moved out of their winter housing into the mobile pasture houses recently!

  • Size: 1.69 acres
  • Number of chickens: 3021 (or something like that)
  • Class of livestock: layer chickens
  • Type of grasses: rye, ryegrass, vetch, clover
  • Grazing duration: 48 hours
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Today’s Paddock (3-9-23)

This is a fun blog series where we show you exactly the paddock that our animals are enjoying on a particular day. All of our animals are raised in their natural environment and the common denominator among them all is PASTURE! So take a look through these blog posts to see where the animals find themselves on a given day.

Our cattle herd is on the move! The grass is growing quickly and that means they are sweeping across this field quickly. We set up a new paddock every 1-2 days and they love moving time!

Everything is portable! The temporary fence, the water trough, and the mineral feeder. Moving, Mobbing and Mowing!

  • Size: 6.31 acres
  • Number of head: 114
  • Class of livestock: feeder and finisher cattle
  • Type of grasses: rye, ryegrass, vetch
  • Grazing duration: 36 hours
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Today’s Paddock (3-5-23)

This is a fun blog series where we show you exactly the paddock that our animals are enjoying on a particular day. All of our animals are raised in their natural environment and the common denominator among them all is PASTURE! So take a look through these blog posts to see where the animals find themselves on a given day.

Here’s some information on the current paddock that this herd of cattle are in today:

  • Size: 9.11 acres
  • Number of head: 114
  • Class of livestock: feeder and finisher cattle
  • Type of grasses: rye, ryegrass, vetch
  • Grazing duration: 48 hours
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Today’s paddock (4-3-15)

Here’s some information on the current paddock that our feeder herd of 38 are in today.

  • Size: 1.65 acres
  • Number of head: 38
  • Class of cattle: feeder calves, finishing cattle, and cull cows
  • Type of grasses: ryegrass, red clover, vetch, fescue
  • Grazing duration: 24 hours

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For those that are unfamiliar with some of the terms:

A paddock is just a subdivision of a larger field.  A paddock is formed by temporary electric wires.  We allot a herd a certain size paddock to last them a certain number of days – many times a paddock contains just one day’s worth of grass.  This forces the cattle to eat the grass down to a certain level, and then we let the grass begin to rest and re-grow as soon as the next day.

Feeder cattle are cattle that are being grown for slaughter as apposed to breeding cattle which are kept for reproduction.  Finishers are those that are closest to slaughter.  Cull cows are mama cows which have been removed from the cow herd and are scheduled for slaughter because of poor performance.