We’ve talked all over this site about the benefits of our daily cattle moves for both the grass and the animals, but thanks to the wonders of modern technology, we can give you a virtual tour of the daily event:
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Interesting to watch. It looks like the cows are confined just to the daily strip, is that right? How do you handle water.
I’m hoping to move another step towards strip grazing next year, but am still trying to figure out how to lay things out.
cheers, Andrew
Thanks – we’re going to try and take a better video that shows the watering system, mineral feeding, fence setup, etc. in more detail, but wanted to go ahead and share this short one.
And yes, the cows are completely fenced into a new paddock every evening. We’ve had very good luck with long rectangular strips. We laid out our pasture with a long one-wire center fence between the permanent six-wire fence. So our rectangle just connects the exterior with the center fence. We have water line running down under the center fence with taps (Plasson valves that our regular hoses can plug into) every 100 feet or so. We use a small water tank that we empty and move to the new paddock every day. We also have a portable mineral feeder that we move with them every day.
To be more clear, the small water tank that we use is a small barrel that has been cut in half and has a gallagher float valve installed to keep the water level constant in it. This is important because if we were simply filling up a tank I think it would be very difficult to get enough water to supply the herd for the day yet a small enough amount that we could dump the tank and move it EVERY day.